KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of thirst. Sense 1: Felt a need or desire for drink. Sense 2: By figure, desired intensely.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Exodus 17:3
Complete exact-word concordance
And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought vs vp out of Egypt, to kill vs and our children, and our cattell with thirst?
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rocke for them: he claue the rocke also, and the waters gushed out.
1611 marginal noteExod. 17.6. num. 20.11.
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