Drunken
שִׁכֹּרStrong’s H7910shikkor (shik-kor)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shikkor is the Hebrew word usually translated “drunken”, “like drunkard” and “drunkard”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.”
Meaning
- Drunkendrunkard, drunken one (subst)
How it's translated
- drunken 3
- like drunkard 3
- a drunkard 2
- drunkards of 2
- to a drunken 1
- drunk 1
- o drunkards 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 25:36And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
- 1 Kings 16:9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 20:16And they went out at noon. But Benhadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
- Job 12:25They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
- Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
- Proverbs 26:9As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁכֹּר shikkor · drunken
1) drunken 1a) drunken 1b) drunkard, drunken one (subst)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drunken” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRUNKEN, adjective
Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.]
- Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.
- Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.
- Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.
- Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.
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.