To imbibe
סָבָאStrong’s H5433sava (sa-va)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sava is the Hebrew word usually translated “drunkard”, “among drunkards of” and “let us drink”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.”
Meaning
- To drink heavily or largely, imbibe(Qal)
- Wine-bibber, drunkard (participle) (subst)
How it's translated
- and a drunkard 1
- among drunkards of 1
- a drunkard 1
- and let us drink 1
- drunkards 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Nahum 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 23:20Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
- Proverbs 23:21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
- Isaiah 56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
- Nahum 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Hebrew dictionary
סָבָא sava · to imbibe
1) to drink heavily or largely, imbibe 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to imbibe
סָבָא sava · be drunk
wine-bibber, drunkard (participle) (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “imbibe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IMBI'BE, verb transitive
[Latin imbibo; in and bibo, to drink.]
- To drink in; to absorb; as, a dry or porous body imbibes a fluid; a sponge imbibes moisture.
- To receive or admit into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors.
- To imbue, as used by Newton; but he has not been followed.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.