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Strong's #5433: caba' (pronounced saw-baw')

a primitive root; to quaff to satiety, i.e. become tipsy:--drunkard, fill self, Sabean, (wine-)bibber.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sâbâ'

1) to drink heavily or largely, imbibe

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to imbibe

1a2) wine-bibber, drunkard (participle) (substantive)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Deuteronomy 21:20: "obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."
Proverbs 23:20: "Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"
Proverbs 23:21: "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
Isaiah 56:12: "Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this"
Nahum 1:10: "they be folded together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry."









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