Word study

Quench

4 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: quenched, quench. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

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How often each original word is translated “quench” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • כָּבָה kâbâhbe quenched, extinguished, go outtranslated this way 8 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H3518Verb  ·  Translated: extinguished 6, extinguish 6, quenched 6

    2 Kings 22:17 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’

    2 Chronicles 34:25 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’

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  • רָוָה râvâhbe saturated, drink one's filltranslated this way 1 time of its 14 uses · Strong’s H7301Verb  ·  Translated: feast 1, soak 1, satisfy 1, take our fill 1

    Jeremiah 46:10 For that day belongs to the Lord GOD of Hosts, a day of vengeance against His foes. The sword will devour until it is satisfied, until it is quenched with their blood. For the Lord GOD of Hosts will hold a sacrifice in the land of the north by the River Euphrates.

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  • שָׁקָה shâqâhquaff, irrigate, furnish a potion totranslated this way 1 time of its 62 uses · Strong’s H8248Verb  ·  Translated: drink 16, water 10, watered 6, drunk 3

    Psalm 69:21 They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

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  • שָׁבַר shâbarbreak, break in piecestranslated this way 1 time of its 146 uses · Strong’s H7665Verb  ·  Translated: broken 32, shattered 23, break 21, broke 10

    Psalm 104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • σβέννυμι sbénnymiI extinguish, suppresstranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s G4570Verb  ·  Translated: extinguish 3, going 1, never quenched 1, quenched 1

    Mark 9:48 where ‘their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.’

    Hebrews 11:34 quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.