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HebrewH7941Noun (Masculine)

שֵׁכָר

she.khar

18Occurrences
H7941Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor

from H7937 (שָׁכַר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
strong drink, intoxicating drink, fermented or intoxicating liquor

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

שֵׁכָר appears 18 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Isaiah
6
Judges
3
Proverbs
3
Numbers
2
1 Samuel
1
Deuteronomy
1
Leviticus
1
Micah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 1:15BSB

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.

Isaiah 28:7BSB

These also stagger from wineand stumble from strong drink:Priests and prophets reel from strong drinkand are befuddled by wine.They stumble because of strong drink,muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Isaiah 5:22BSB

Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wineand champions in mixing beer,

Judges 13:7BSB

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”

Micah 2:11BSB

If a man of wind were to comeand say falsely,“I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,”he would be just the preacher for this people!

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.