שִׁכּוֹרshikkôwr

as substantive = drunken one, drunkard (1 Samuel 25:36; 1 Kings 16:9; 1 Samuel 1:13; Joel 1:5; Isaiah 28:1)

Pronunciation: shik-kore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7910

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Samuel 1:13 Seeing her lips moving but hearing no sound, he thought she had been drinking.
  • 1 Samuel 25:36 When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn’t tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.
  • 1 Kings 16:9 Then Zimri, who commanded half of the royal chariots, made plans to kill him. One day in Tirzah, Elah was getting drunk at the home of Arza, the supervisor of the palace.
  • 1 Kings 20:16 About noontime, as Ben-hadad and the thirty-two allied kings were still in their tents drinking themselves into a stupor,
  • Job 12:25 They grope in the darkness without a light. He makes them stagger like drunkards.
  • Psalms 107:27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards and were at their wits’ end.
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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).