סָבָאçâbâʼ
סָבָא: imbibe, drink largely
Pronunciation: saw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5433
Meanings
Qal: imbibe, participle active = substantive wine-bibber, drunkard (Isaiah 56:12; Deuteronomy 21:20; Proverbs 23:21)
סָבָא: = drunkards, wine-bibbers (?) (Ezekiel 23:42)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 5 times in the Bible.
- Deuteronomy 21:20 The parents must say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’
- Proverbs 23:20 Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons,
- Proverbs 23:21 for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
- Isaiah 56:12 “Come,” they say, “let’s get some wine and have a party. Let’s all get drunk. Then tomorrow we’ll do it again and have an even bigger party!”
- Nahum 1:10 His enemies, tangled like thornbushes and staggering like drunks, will be burned up like dry stubble in a field.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).