pinō (to drink) · Rightly

Meaning

Usually translated “drink”, “drinking” and “shall i drink”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

to drink 18
drinking 9
drink 6
shall i drink 4
may drink 4
i may drink 3
you may drink 2
you will drink 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Luke 16
Matthew 12
1 Corinthians 12
John 11
Mark 7
Acts 3

9 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Matthew 6:31Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Matthew 11:18For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.
Matthew 11:19The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Matthew 20:23And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
Matthew 24:38For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

All 66 verses, by book

Matthew 12: 6:25 6:31 11:18 11:19 20:22 20:23 24:38 24:49 26:27 26:29 26:42 27:34
Mark 7: 2:16 10:38 10:39 14:23 14:25 15:23 16:18
Luke 16: 1:15 5:30 5:33 5:39 7:33 7:34 10:7 12:19 12:29 12:45 13:26 17:8 17:27 17:28 22:18 22:30
John 11: 4:7 4:9 4:10 4:12 4:13 4:14 6:53 6:54 6:56 7:37 18:11
Acts 3: 9:9 23:12 23:21
Romans 1: 14:21
1 Corinthians 12: 9:4 10:4 10:7 10:21 10:31 11:22 11:25 11:26 11:27 11:28 11:29 15:32
Hebrews 1: 6:7
Revelation 3: 14:10 16:6 18:3

Greek dictionary

πίνω pinō · to drink

πίνω [in LXX chiefly for שָׁתָה ;] to drink: absol., Luk.2:19, Jhn.4:7, al.; with accusative of thing(s), Mat.6:26, 31 Mrk.14:25, al.; of habitual use, Luk.1:15, Rom.14:21, al.; by meton., τὸ ποτήριον, 1Co.10:21, al.; of the earth absorbing rain (Hdt., al.), Heb.6:7; spiritually, of the blood of Christ, Jhn.6:53-54, 56; before ἐκ (of the vessel), Mat.26:27, al.; id. (of the drink; Bl., § 36, 1), Mat.26:29, Jhn.4:13-14 Rev.14:10, al.; ἀπό, Luk.22:18 (cf. ἀπο-, συν-πίνω; on the form πίεσαι, Luk.17:8, see Bl., § 21, 8, and on the contr. aor. πεῖν, M, Pr., 44 f., Thackeray, Gr., 63 f.) (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “drink” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DRINK, verb intransitive

preterit tense and participle passive drank. Old preterit tense And participle passive drunk; participle passive Drunken. [G. drink and drench are radically the same word, and probably drown. We observe that n is not radical.]

To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst or other purpose; as, to drink of the brook.“Ye shall indeed drink of my cup” Matthew 20:23
To take spirituous liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors; to be a habitual drunkard.
To feast; to be entertained with liquors.
To salute in drinking; to invite to drink by drinking first; as, I drink to you grace.

All definitions and other forms of “drink”

To wish well to, in the act of taking the cup.

DRINK, verb transitive

To swallow, as liquids; to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; as, to drink water or wine.
To suck in; to absorb; to imbibe.
To take in by any inlet; to hear; to see; as, to drink words or the voice.
To take in air; to inhale.

DRINK, noun

Liquor to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach, for quenching thirst, or for medicinal purposes; as water, wine, beer, cider, decoctions, etc.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.