Drunkenness
שִׁכָּרוֹןStrong’s H7943shikkaron (shik-ka-ron)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shikkaron is the Hebrew word usually translated “drunkenness”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.”
Meaning
- Drunkenness
How it's translated
- drunkenness 2
- to drunkenness 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 2
- Jeremiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁכָּרוֹן shikkaron · drunkenness
drunkenness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.