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In biblical contexts, the term "drained" often refers to the act of emptying or exhausting a resource, whether it be physical, emotional, or spiritual. This concept can be seen throughout Scripture in various forms, illustrating both literal and metaphorical applications.

Physical Draining

One of the most vivid examples of physical draining in the Bible is found in the context of blood, which is often associated with life and sacrifice. In Leviticus 17:11, the importance of blood is emphasized: "For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life." The draining of blood from sacrificial animals was a critical component of the atonement rituals, symbolizing the life given for the remission of sins.

In the New Testament, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ is the ultimate fulfillment of this sacrificial system. His blood was drained as He was crucified, providing the atonement for humanity's sins. John 19:34 describes this moment: "Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out." This act signifies the complete and final sacrifice, fulfilling the Old Testament requirements and establishing a new covenant.

Emotional and Spiritual Draining

The Bible also addresses the concept of emotional and spiritual draining. In the Psalms, David often expresses feelings of being drained or exhausted due to his trials and tribulations. Psalm 6:6 states, "I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears." Here, David's emotional state is one of depletion, reflecting the human experience of sorrow and the need for divine intervention and restoration.

The prophet Elijah also experienced spiritual and emotional draining after his confrontation with the prophets of Baal. In 1 Kings 19:4, Elijah, overwhelmed and exhausted, prays for death: "But he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. 'I have had enough, LORD,' he said. 'Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.'" This moment highlights the human tendency to feel drained when faced with overwhelming challenges, yet it also sets the stage for God's provision and encouragement.

Restoration and Renewal

While the Bible acknowledges the reality of being drained, it also offers hope for restoration and renewal. Isaiah 40:31 provides a promise of strength for those who rely on the Lord: "But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not faint." This verse assures believers that spiritual renewal is available through faith and reliance on God.

In the New Testament, Jesus invites those who are weary and burdened to find rest in Him. Matthew 11:28-30 records His comforting words: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." This invitation underscores the promise of spiritual replenishment through a relationship with Christ.

In summary, the concept of being drained is multifaceted in the Bible, encompassing physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. While it acknowledges the reality of exhaustion, Scripture consistently points to God's provision for renewal and strength.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(imp. & p. p.) of Drain.

Strong's Hebrew

4680. matsah -- to drain, drain out
... 4679, 4680. matsah. 4681 . to drain, drain out. Transliteration: matsah Phonetic
Spelling: (maw-tsaw') Short Definition: drained. Word Origin a prim. ...
/hebrew/4680.htm - 6k

4681. Motsah -- a place in Benjamin
... Mozah. Active participle feminine of matsah; drained; Motsah, a place in Palestine --
Mozah. see HEBREW matsah. 4680, 4681. Motsah. 4682 . Strong's Numbers
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2015. haphak -- to turn, overturn
... root Definition to turn, overturn NASB Word Usage become (1), came (1), change
(1), changed (6), changes (1), come (1), drained (1), give (1), had a change (1 ...
/hebrew/2015.htm - 6k

Library

The Knight's Leap: a Legend of Altenahr
... He harnessed himself by the clear moonshine, And he mounted his horse at the door;
And he drained such a cup of the red Ahr-wine, As man never drained before. ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the knights leap a legend.htm

Chambers of Imagery
... The most silvery lake that lies sleeping amidst beauty, itself the very fairest
spot of all, when drained off shows ugly ooze and filthy mud, and all manner of ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/chambers of imagery.htm

On his Father'S Silence, Because of the Plague of Hail.
... below has many turnings, and the body of our humiliation [3062] is ever rising,
falling and changing; surely he, who without fault has almost drained the cup ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xvi on his fathers.htm

Chapter ix
... flesh. That view is never recorded in Scripture; although it is stated
that the blood must first be drained (Le 7:27; 17:10, 14). ...
//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter ix.htm

Out of the Deep of Doubt, Darkness, and Hell.
... There is not a sorrow which man can taste which Jesus Christ has not fulfilled.
He filled the cup of misery to the brim, and drained it to the dregs. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/out of the deep/v out of the deep.htm

Of Removing Tithes.
... Cro. Eliz.475.2 L. Raym.991. Fenny-Land drained is not within the stat. of Edw. ...
Dig.491. Fenns. drained and cultivated, pay tithes.4 Roll. Rep.354. ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/8 of removing tithes.htm

A Message from God for Thee
... thee. Come thou to the golden chalice into which God drained his wrath,
and look at the sparkling wine of love which filleth it. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/a message from god for.htm

On a Piece of Chalk. A Lecture to Working Men.
... The crust which is often deposited by waters which have drained through limestone
rocks, in the form of what are called stalagmites and stalactites, is ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/ix on a piece of.htm

Christ --Perfect through Sufferings
... for the agony of one, but an equivalent for the hells of all that innumerable host
whose sins he bore, condensed into one black draught to be drained in a few ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/christperfect through sufferings.htm

First Greek Form.
... And a woman that had an issue of blood for many years, and whose joints [2016] and
veins were drained by the flowing of the blood, so that she did not present ...
/.../the report of pilate concerning our lord jesus christ/first greek form.htm

Thesaurus

Drained (38 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Drain. Multi-Version Concordance
Drained (38 Occurrences). Leviticus 1:15 The priest shall ...
/d/drained.htm - 18k

Drain (11 Occurrences)
... from a country. 7. (n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel;
a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink. 8. (n.) The ...
/d/drain.htm - 10k

Draining (20 Occurrences)
... 2 Chronicles 29:22 So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the
priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to ...
/d/draining.htm - 13k

Riverbed (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Riverbed (2 Occurrences). Job 14:11 As the waters
fail from the sea, and the river is drained dry; (See NIV). ...
/r/riverbed.htm - 6k

Squares (25 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Lamentations 2:11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of
my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the ...
/s/squares.htm - 13k

Perfumes (69 Occurrences)
... will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have
been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to ...
/p/perfumes.htm - 30k

Burned (587 Occurrences)
... 1:15 And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted
off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side ...
/b/burned.htm - 37k

Evil-doing (106 Occurrences)
... 26:21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of
the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on ...
/e/evil-doing.htm - 38k

Breast (71 Occurrences)
... Lamentations 2:11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are
deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the ...
/b/breast.htm - 31k

Drunk (84 Occurrences)
... awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his
wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it. ...
/d/drunk.htm - 34k

Resources

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Drained (38 Occurrences)

Leviticus 1:15
The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 4:30
And the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of its blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar.
(BBE)

Leviticus 4:34
And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar;
(BBE)

Leviticus 5:9
He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar; and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar. It is a sin offering.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 28:7
And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 12:16
But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 12:24
Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 12:27
Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 15:23
Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.
(BBE)

Judges 6:38
It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
(See NAS)

1 Samuel 26:20
Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.
(BBE)

2 Samuel 14:14
For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 29:22
So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 35:11
And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.
(BBE)

Job 10:10
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
(BBE)

Job 14:11
As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;
(See JPS)

Job 16:13
His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.
(BBE)

Psalms 18:42
Then they were crushed as small as dust before the wind; they were drained out like the waste of the streets.
(BBE)

Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
(See NAS)

Psalms 73:10
Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full cup are drained by them.
(ASV JPS)

Isaiah 19:5
And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
(See JPS)

Isaiah 26:21
For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
(BBE)

Isaiah 51:17
Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 7:18
The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 44:25
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.
(BBE)

Lamentations 2:11
My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
(BBE)

Lamentations 2:12
They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
(BBE)

Lamentations 4:13
It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 21:32
You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 22:3
And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!
(BBE)

Ezekiel 22:4
You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 23:34
And thou hast drunk it, and hast drained 'it', And its earthen ware thou dost gnaw, And thine own breasts thou pluckest off, For I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,
(YLT)

Joel 3:19
Egypt will be a waste and Edom a land of destruction, because of the evil done to the children of Judah, because they have let blood be drained out in their land without cause.
(BBE)

Zephaniah 1:17
And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.
(BBE)

Zechariah 4:12
And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?
(BBE)

Subtopics

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