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Strong's #7937: shakar (pronounced shaw-kar')

a primitive root; to become tipsy; in a qualified sense, to satiate with a stimulating drink or (figuratively) influence:--(be filled with) drink (abundantly), (be, make) drunk(-en), be merry. (Superlative of 8248.)




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ

shâkar

1) to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated

1a) (Qal) to become drunken

1b) (Piel) to make drunken, cause to be drunk

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be drunk

1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself drunk

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

Genesis 9:21: "And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent."
Genesis 43:34: "mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank,"
Deuteronomy 32:42: "I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood"
1 Samuel 1:14: "unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from"
2 Samuel 11:13: "him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed"
Song of Solomon 5:1: "eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved."
Isaiah 29:9: "and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not"
Isaiah 49:26: "them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh"
Isaiah 51:21: "now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:"
Isaiah 63:6: "And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth."
Jeremiah 25:27: "the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no"
Jeremiah 48:26: " Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,"
Jeremiah 51:7: "hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine;"
Jeremiah 51:39: "I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual"
Jeremiah 51:57: " And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual"
Lamentations 4:21: "also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked."
Nahum 3:11: "Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek"
Habakkuk 2:15: "unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look"
Haggai 1:6: "ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm;"









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