1. water — The common noun for water (Greek ὕδωρ), encompassing all NT uses: natural water (seas, rivers, wells, rain), water for purification and ritual washing, baptismal water, and drinking water. All grammatical cases and numbers (singular, plural, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative) and prepositional constructions ('with water,' 'in water,' 'of water') refer to the same substance. Uniformly translated: Spanish 'agua/aguas,' Arabic 'مَاءِ/مَاءَ,' Hindi 'पानी,' Korean '물,' Swahili 'maji.' The instrumental uses ('with water' for baptism) represent contextual application, not a distinct lexical sense. 80×
AR["-مَاءٍ","المَاءِ","الْمَاءِ","بِمَاءٍ","ماءً","ماءٍ","ماءَ","ماءِ","مَاءً","مَاءٌ","مَاءٍ","مَاءَ","مِيَاهٍ"]·ben["জল","জল,","জলকে","জলে","জলের","জলের;"]·DE["Wasser"]·EN["of-water","water","waters"]·FR["eau"]·heb["מַיִם"]·HI["जल-का","पअनि","पानी","पानी,","पानी-का","पानी-में","पानी-से","पानी;"]·ID["air","air,","air;","itu"]·IT["acqua"]·jav["banyu,","toya","toya,","toya.","toya;"]·KO["물","물-과","물-을","물-의","물에","물에게","물을","물의","물이"]·PT["de-água","em-água","água","água,","água;","águas"]·RU["вода","воде","водой","воду","воды"]·ES["-agua","agua","aguas","de-agua"]·SW["cha-maji","maji","maji,","wa-maji"]·TR["su","suda","sudan","sudan,","sulara","suya","suya,","suyla","suyu","suyun","suyun,"]·urd["نہ-دیا","پانی","پانی-میں","پانی-کا","پانی،","پانی؛"]
Matt 3:11, Matt 3:16, Matt 17:15, Matt 27:24, Matt 27:49, Mark 1:10, Mark 9:22, Mark 9:41, Mark 14:13, Luke 7:44, Luke 8:24, Luke 8:25 (+38 more)
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
ὕδωρ [ῠ, see near the end], τό, genitive ὕδατος: an Epic dialect dative ὕδει in Refs 8th c.BC+; later nominative ὕδος Refs 3rd c.BC+; Boeotian dialect οὕδωρ probably in Refs:—water, of any kind, but in Refs 8th c.BC+ rarely of seawater without an epithet, ἄνεμός τε καὶ ὕ. Refs 8th c.BC+; of rivers, ὕ. Αἰσήποιο, Στυγός, Refs 8th c.BC+; so in Lyric poetry and Trag., ὕ, Ἀσώπιον Refs 5th c.BC+:…