Dreg
שֶׁ֫מֶרStrong’s H8105shemer (she-mer)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shemer is the Hebrew word usually translated “old wine”, “dregs its” and “lees its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.”
Meaning
- Lees, dregs
How it's translated
- old wine 2
- dregs its 1
- lees its 1
- lees their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Zephaniah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 25:6And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
- Jeremiah 48:11Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Zephaniah 1:12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫מֶר shemer · dreg
lees, dregs
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.