KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun form of water, meaning to supply with water, irrigate, or cause to drink.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 30:38
Complete exact-word concordance
And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
And he set the rods which he had pilled, before the flockes in the gutters in the watering troughes when the flocks came to drinke, that they should conceiue when they came to drinke.
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
Also by watring he wearieth the thicke cloud: hee scattereth his bright cloud.
1611 marginal noteHeb. the of his light.
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doeth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his oxe or his asse from the stall, and leade him away to watering?
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Historical English dictionary sources
Overflowing; sprinkling or wetting with water; supplying with water; giving water for drink; giving a way appearance to. WATERING, noun 1. The act of overflowing or sprinkling with water; the act of supplying with water for drink or other purposes; the act of wetting and calendering for giving luster to, as cloth. 2. The place where water is supplied.
