Drunkenness
μέθηStrong’s G3178methē
Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament
In short
Methē is the Greek word usually translated “drunkenness”, “drinking” and “drunkennesses”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”
Meaning
Usually translated “drunkenness”, “drinking” and “drunkennesses”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- drunkenness 1
- in drinking 1
- drunkennesses 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 1
- Romans 1
- Galatians 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
- Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Greek dictionary
μέθη methē · drunkenness
μέθη, -ης, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for שָׁכַר and cognate forms ;] drunkenness: Luk.21:34; pl., Rom.13:13, Gal.5:21 † SYN.: see: κῶμος (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drunkenness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRUNKENNESS, noun
- Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.
- Habitually ebriety or intoxication.
- Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.