שָׁכַרshâkar
be, or beocme, drunk, drunken
Pronunciation: shaw-kar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7937
Meanings
Qal: become drunken (Isaiah 29:9; Genesis 9:21; Isaiah 49:26)
Pi`el: make drunken (2 Samuel 11:13; Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 51:7)
Hiph`il: id. (Jeremiah 51:27; Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 48:26)
Hithpa`el: make thyself drunken, [a drunken spectacle] (1 Samuel 1:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 9:21 One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.
- Genesis 43:34 And Joseph filled their plates with food from his own table, giving Benjamin five times as much as he gave the others. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
- Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh— the blood of the slaughtered and the captives, and the heads of the enemy leaders.”’
- 1 Samuel 1:14 “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”
- 2 Samuel 11:13 Then David invited him to dinner and got him drunk. But even then he couldn’t get Uriah to go home to his wife. Again he slept at the palace entrance with the king’s palace guard.
- Song of Solomon 5:1 I have entered my garden, my treasure, my bride! I gather myrrh with my spices and eat honeycomb with my honey. I drink wine with my milk. Oh, lover and beloved, eat and drink! Yes, drink deeply of your love!
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).