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Drink (414 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The drinks of the Hebrews were water, wine, "strong
drink," and vinegar. ... To drink water by measure (Ezek. ...
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Drink-offering (33 Occurrences)
Drink-offering. Drinkoffering, Drink-offering. Drink-offerings . Easton's
Bible Dictionary Consisted of wine (Numbers 15:5; Hosea ...
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Drink-offerings (31 Occurrences)
Drink-offerings. Drink-offering, Drink-offerings. Drinks .
Multi-Version Concordance Drink-offerings (31 Occurrences). ...
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Pitcher (16 Occurrences)
... Genesis 24:14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say,'Please let
down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say,'Drink, and I will also ...
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Vinegar (11 Occurrences)
... In the ancient world vinegar was usually made of wine, although any fruit juice
can be utilized in its manufacture, and "vinegar of strong drink" (palm juice ...
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Beer (15 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 1:15 And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit
is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have ...
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Stagger (20 Occurrences)
... You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger. (WEB JPS ASV NAS NIV). ... Isaiah
28:7 They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. ...
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Camels (52 Occurrences)
... Genesis 24:14 Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say,'Please let
down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say,'Drink, and I will also ...
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Continual (55 Occurrences)
... Numbers 28:10 this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the
continual burnt offering, and the drink offering of it. (WEB ...
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Specified (9 Occurrences)
... Numbers 29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for
the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance ...
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Bible Concordance
Drink (414 Occurrences)

Matthew 6:25 Therefore, I tell you, don't be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn't life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 6:31 "Therefore don't be anxious, saying,'What will we eat?','What will we drink?' or,'With what will we be clothed?'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 10:42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Matthew 11:18 For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say,'He has a demon.'
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 20:23 He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 23:24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
(BBE DBY)

Matthew 24:49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:35 for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:37 "Then the righteous will answer him, saying,'Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:42 for I was hungry, and you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 25:44 Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?
(BBE)

Matthew 26:27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 26:29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 26:42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 27:34 They gave him sour wine to drink mixed with gall. When he had tasted it, he would not drink.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 27:48 Immediately one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him a drink.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 2:16 The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Mark 9:41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Mark 10:38 But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 10:39 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 14:23 And he took a cup, and when he had given praise, he gave it to them: and they all had a drink from it.
(BBE)

Mark 14:25 Most certainly I tell you, I will no more drink of the fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it anew in the Kingdom of God."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 15:23 They offered him wine mixed with myrrh to drink, but he didn't take it.
(WEB KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Mark 15:36 One ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Let him be. Let's see whether Elijah comes to take him down."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 16:18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 1:15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:30 Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 7:33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say,'He has a demon.'
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 10:7 Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 12:19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 12:29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 12:45 But if that servant says in his heart,'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 13:26 then shall ye begin to say, We did eat and drink in thy presence, and thou didst teach in our streets;
(ASV BBE YLT)

Luke 17:8 and will not rather tell him,'Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me, while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink'?
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 22:18 for I tell you, I will not drink at all again from the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God comes."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 22:30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 2:10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
(See NIV)

John 4:7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 4:10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you,'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'
(YLT)

John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 4:15 The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.
(BBE)

John 6:35 And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.
(BBE)

John 6:53 Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 6:54 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 6:55 For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 6:56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me, and I in him.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 7:37 Now on the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
(See NIV)

Acts 9:9 And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.
(KJV WEY ASV BBE YLT NIV)

Acts 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
(KJV BBE YLT)

Acts 23:12 When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Acts 23:21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 12:20 Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 14:17 for the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Romans 14:21 It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 3:2 I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able;
(DBY NAS)

1 Corinthians 4:11 Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;
(BBE)

1 Corinthians 5:11 But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.
(Root in WEY BBE)

1 Corinthians 6:10 nor theives, nor avaricious people, nor any who are addicted to hard drinking, to abusive language or to greed of gain, will inherit God's Kingdom.
(Root in WEY BBE)

1 Corinthians 9:4 Have we no right to eat and to drink?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 9:7 What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?
(WEB BBE NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:7 Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.
(BBE DBY)

1 Corinthians 11:22 What, don't you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God's assembly, and put them to shame who don't have? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don't praise you.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:25 In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:27 Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord's cup in a manner unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 11:29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:32 If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then "let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 11:27 In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.
(BBE)

Ephesians 5:19 but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord.
(WEY)

Philippians 2:17 And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:
(BBE NAS NIV)

Colossians 2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Thessalonians 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who drink freely, drink at night.
(WEY BBE DBY)

1 Timothy 5:23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your frequent infirmities.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

2 Timothy 4:6 I for my part am like a drink-offering which is already being poured out; and the time for my departure is now close at hand.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Titus 2:3 In the same way exhort aged women to let their conduct be such as becomes consecrated persons. They must not be slanderers nor enslaved to wine-drinking. They must be teachers of what is right.
(Root in WEY RSV)

Hebrews 9:10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 7:16 They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:
(BBE)

Revelation 14:8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 14:10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:6 For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:19 The great city was split into three parts; the cities of the nations fell; and great Babylon came into remembrance before God, for Him to make her drink from the wine-cup of His fierce anger.
(WEY)

Revelation 21:6 He also said, "They have now been fulfilled. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To those who are thirsty I will give the privilege of drinking from the well of the Water of Life without payment.
(Root in WEY NIV)

Genesis 9:21 And he took of the wine of it and was overcome by drink; and he was uncovered in his tent.
(BBE YLT)

Genesis 19:32 Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:33 They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:34 It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 19:35 They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger went and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she got up.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 21:19 God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Easton's Bible Dictionary
The drinks of the Hebrews were water, wine, "strong drink," and vinegar. Their drinking vessels were the cup, goblet or "basin," the "cruse" or pitcher, and the saucer.

To drink water by measure (Ezek. 4:11), and to buy water to drink (Lamentations 5:4), denote great scarcity. To drink blood means to be satiated with slaughter.

The Jews carefully strained their drinks through a sieve, through fear of violating the law of Leviticus 11:20, 23, 41, 42. (See Matthew 23:24. "Strain at" should be "strain out.")

Drink, strong: (Hebrews shekar'), an intoxicating liquor (Judges 13:4; Luke 1:15; Isaiah 5:11; Micah 2:11) distilled from corn, honey, or dates. The effects of the use of strong drink are referred to in Psalm 107:27; Isaiah 24:20; 49:26; 51:17-22. Its use prohibited, Proverbs 20:1. (see WINE.)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

2. (v. i.) To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the /se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.

3. (v. t.) To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water.

4. (v. t.) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.

5. (v. t.) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.

6. (v. t.) To smoke, as tobacco.

7. (n.) Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions.

8. (n.) Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
DRINK, STRONG

(shekhar; sikera; from shakhar, "to be or become drunk"; probably from the same root as sugar, saccharine): With the exception of Numbers 28:7, "strong drink" is always coupled with "wine." The two terms are commonly used as mutually exclusive, and as together exhaustive of all kinds of intoxicants.

Originally shekhar seems to have been a general term for intoxicating drinks of all kinds, without reference to the material out of which they were made; and in that sense, it would include wine. Reminiscences of this older usage may be found in Numbers 28:7 (where shekhar is clearly equivalent to wine, as may be seen by comparing it with 28:14, and with Exodus 29:40, where the material of the drink offering is expressly designated "wine").

When the Hebrews were living a nomadic life, before their settlement in Canaan, the grape-wine was practically unknown to them, and there would be no need of a special term to describe it. But when they settled down to an agricultural life, and came to cultivate the vine, it would become necessary to distinguish it from the older kinds of intoxicants; hence, the borrowed word yayin ("wine") was applied to the former, while the latter would be classed together under the old term shekhar, which would then come to mean all intoxicating beverages other than wine (Leviticus 10:9 Numbers 6:3 Deuteronomy 14:26 Proverbs 20:1 Isaiah 24:9). The exact nature of these drinks is not clearly indicated in the Bible itself. The only fermented beverage other than grape-wine specifically named is pomegranate-wine (Songs 8:2: "the juice of my pomegranate," the Revised Version, margin "sweet wine of my pomegranate"); but we may infer that other kinds of shekhar besides that obtained from pomegranates were in use, such as drinks made from dates, honey, raisins, barley, apples, etc. Probably Jerome (circa 400 A.D.) was near the mark when he wrote, "Sikera in the Hebrew tongue means every kind of drink which can intoxicate, whether made from grain or from the juice of apples, or when honeycombs are boiled down into a sweet and strange drink, or the fruit of palm oppressed into liquor, and when water is colored and thickened from boiled herbs" (Ep. ad Nepotianum). Thus shekhar is a comprehensive term for all kinds of fermented drinks, excluding wine.

Probably the most common sort of shekhar used in Biblical times was palm or date-wine. This is not actually mentioned in the Bible, and we do not meet with its Hebrew name yen temarim ("wine of dates") until the Talmudic period. But it is frequently referred to in the Assyrian-Babylonian contract tablets (cuneiform), and from this and other evidence we infer that it was very well known among the ancient Semitic peoples. Moreover, it is known that the palm tree flourished abundantly in Biblical lands, and the presumption is therefore very strong that wine made of the juice of dates was a common beverage. It must not be supposed, however, that the term shekhar refers exclusively to date-wine. It rather designates all intoxicating liquors other than grape-wine, while in few cases it probably includes even wine.

There can be no doubt that shekhar was intoxicating. This is proved

(1) from the etymology of the word, it being derived from shakhar, "to be or become drunk" (Genesis 9:21 Isaiah 29:9 Jeremiah 25:27, etc.); compare the word for drunkard (shikkar), and for drunkenness (shikkaron) from the same root;

(2) from descriptions of its effects: e.g. Isaiah graphically describes the stupefying effect of shekhar on those who drink it excessively (Isaiah 28:7, 8).

Hannah defended herself against the charge of being drunk by saying, "I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink," i.e. neither wine nor any other intoxicating liquor (1 Samuel 1:15). The attempt made to prove that it was simply the unfermented juice of certain fruits is quite without foundation. Its immoderate use is strongly condemned (Isaiah 5:11, 12 Proverbs 20:1; see DRUNKENNESS). It was forbidden to ministering priests (Leviticus 10:9), and to Nazirites (Numbers 6:3 Judges 13:4, 7, 14; compare Luke 1:15), but was used in the sacrificial meal as drink offering (Numbers 28:7), and could be bought with the tithe-money and consumed by the worshipper in the temple (Deuteronomy 14:26). It is commended to the weak and perishing as a means of deadening their pain; but not to princes, lest it might lead them to pervert justice (Proverbs 31:4-7).

D. Miall Edwards

SPIRITUAL DRINK

(pneumatikon poma): Having a spiritual significance, as referring to the water that flowed miraculously from the smitten rock (1 Corinthians 10:4 Numbers 20:11). Symbolic also of nourishment for the thirsty soul in the sacramental cup and the outpoured blood (life) of Christ.

See ROCK, 2, (1); SPIRITUAL ROCK.

DRINK

See FOOD; DRINK, STRONG.

DRINK OFFERING

See SACRIFICE.

Greek
4222. potizo -- to give to drink
... to give to drink. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: potizo Phonetic Spelling:
(pot-id'-zo) Short Definition: I cause to drink, give to drink Definition: I ...
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4689. spendo -- to pour out (as a drink offering), to make a ...
... to pour out (as a drink offering), to make a libation. Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: spendo Phonetic Spelling: (spen'-do) Short Definition: I pour out ...
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4188. poma -- a drink
... 4187, 4188. poma. 4189 . a drink. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration:
poma Phonetic Spelling: (pom'-ah) Short Definition: drink Definition: drink ...
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4095. pino -- to drink
... pino. 4096 . to drink. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: pino Phonetic Spelling:
(pee'-no) Short Definition: I drink, imbibe Definition: I drink, imbibe. ...
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4213. posis -- a drinking, a drink
... a drinking, a drink. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: posis Phonetic
Spelling: (pos'-is) Short Definition: drink Definition: drinking, drink ...
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4844. sumpino -- to drink with
... to drink with. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sumpino Phonetic Spelling:
(soom-pee'-no) Short Definition: I drink together with Definition: I drink ...
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5202. hudropoteo -- to drink water
... to drink water. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hudropoteo Phonetic Spelling:
(hoo-drop-ot-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am a water drinker Definition: I am ...
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2666. katapino -- to drink down
... to drink down. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katapino Phonetic Spelling:
(kat-ap-ee'-no) Short Definition: I swallow, devour, destroy Definition: I ...
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4844a. sumpino -- to drink with
... to drink with. Transliteration: sumpino Short Definition: drank. Word Origin from
sun and pino Definition to drink with NASB Word Usage drank (1). 4844, 4844a ...
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4608. sikera -- fermented liquor
... of Speech: Noun, Indeclinable, Other Type Transliteration: sikera Phonetic Spelling:
(sik'-er-ah) Short Definition: intoxicating drink Definition: intoxicating ...
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Strong's Hebrew
8248. shaqah -- cause to drink water, give to drink
... shaqah. 8249 . cause to drink water, give to drink. Transliteration: shaqah Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-kaw') Short Definition: drink. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7941. shekar -- intoxicating drink, strong drink
... 7940, 7941. shekar. 7942 . intoxicating drink, strong drink. Transliteration:
shekar Phonetic Spelling: (shay-kawr') Short Definition: drink. ...
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8354. shathah -- to drink
... 8353, 8354. shathah. 8355 . to drink. Transliteration: shathah Phonetic Spelling:
(shaw-thaw') Short Definition: drink. Word Origin a prim. ...
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4960. mishteh -- a feast, drink
... 4959, 4960. mishteh. 4961 . a feast, drink. Transliteration: mishteh Phonetic
Spelling: (mish-teh') Short Definition: banquet. ... banquet, drank, drink, feasted ...
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5435. sobe -- a drink, liquor
... 5434, 5435. sobe. 5436 . a drink, liquor. Transliteration: sobe Phonetic
Spelling: (so'-beh) Short Definition: drink. Word Origin ...
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8250. shiqquy -- a drink
... 8249, 8250. shiqquy. 8251 . a drink. Transliteration: shiqquy Phonetic
Spelling: (shik-koo'-ee) Short Definition: drink. Word Origin ...
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5262a. nesek -- a drink offering
nesek or nesek. 5262, 5262a. nesek or nesek. 5262b . a drink offering.
Transliteration: nesek or nesek Short Definition: offering. ...
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8355. shethah -- to drink
... shethah. 8356 . to drink. Transliteration: shethah Phonetic Spelling: (sheth-aw')
Short Definition: drank. ... drink. (Aramaic) corresponding to shathah -- drink. ...
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7301. ravah -- to be saturated, drink one's fill
... 7300, 7301. ravah. 7302 . to be saturated, drink one's fill. Transliteration:
ravah Phonetic Spelling: (raw-vaw') Short Definition: fill. Word Origin a prim ...
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5261. nesak -- a drink offering
... 5260, 5261. nesak. 5262 . a drink offering. Transliteration: nesak Phonetic
Spelling: (nes-ak') Short Definition: offerings. ... drink offering. ...
/hebrew/5261.htm - 6k

Library

'Give Me to Drink'
... 'GIVE ME TO DRINK'. '... Jesus saith unto her, Give Me to drink.... Jesus
saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am He.'"John 4:7, 26. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/give me to drink.htm

Whether Drink is the Matter of Sobriety?
... OF SOBRIETY (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether drink is the matter of sobriety? Objection 1:
It would seem that drink is not the matter proper to sobriety. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether drink is the matter.htm

Come, Let us Drink the Water New,
... CANON FOR EASTER DAY BY ST. JOHN OF DAMASCUS Come, let us drink the water new,.
tr., John Brownlie ... ho Heirmos. troparion. Come, let us drink the water new,. ...
/.../brownlie/hymns of the greek church/come let us drink the.htm

Whether Food or Drink Taken Beforehand Hinders the Receiving of ...
... OF THE USE OR RECEIVING OF THIS SACRAMENT IN GENERAL (TWELVE ARTICLES) Whether food
or drink taken beforehand hinders the receiving of this sacrament? ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether food or drink taken.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, John vi. 55,"For My Flesh is Meat ...
... Sermon LXXXII. On the words of the Gospel, John vi. 55,"For my flesh is meat indeed,
and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh," etc. [CXXXII. ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon lxxxii on the words.htm

It is Related Also that vinegar was Given Him to Drink, or Wine ...
... 26. It is related also that vinegar was given Him to drink, or wine mingled
with myrrh which is bitterer than gall. Hear what the ...
/.../26 it is related also.htm

Further Proofs of the Same Proposition, Drawn from the Promises ...
... Heresies: Book V Chapter XXXIII."Further proofs of the same proposition, drawn from
the promises made by Christ, when He declared that He would drink of the ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxxiii further proofs of the.htm

Of the Consistency of Matthew's Version with that of Mark in the ...
... Chapter XI."Of the Consistency of Matthew's Version with that of Mark in the Account
of the Potion Offered Him to Drink, Which is Introduced Before the ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter xi of the consistency of.htm

And at his Crucifixion, when He Asked a Drink...
... THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE APOSTOLIC PREACHING Chapter 82 And at His crucifixion,
when He asked a drink� And at His crucifixion, when He asked a drink, ...
/.../irenaeus/the demonstration of the apostolic preaching/chapter 82 and at his.htm

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. Therefore Take no Thought, Saying ...
... Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink . . ...
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat, or what shall we drink . ...
/.../lyra germanica the christian year/fifteenth sunday after trinity therefore.htm

Subtopics

Drink

Drink Offering

Drink offering for Public Sacrifices Provided by the State

Drink offering: Antiquity of

Drink offering: Idolaters often Used Blood For

Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Offered to the Queen of Heaven

Drink offering: Idolatrous Jews: Reproved for offering, to Idols

Drink offering: Illustrative of The: Devotedness of Ministers

Drink offering: Illustrative of The: Offering of Christ

Drink offering: Illustrative of The: Pouring out of the Spirit

Drink offering: Not Poured on the Altar of Incense

Drink offering: Omission of, Caused by Bad Vintage

Drink offering: Quantity Appointed to be Used for Each Kind of Sacrifice

Drink offering: Sacrifices Accompanied By

Drink offering: Vanity of offering, to Idols

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