To drink
שָׁתָהStrong’s H8354shatah (sha-tah)
Appears in 193 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shatah is the Hebrew word usually translated “drink” and “drank”. It appears in 193 verses of the Old Testament.
“Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink.”
Meaning
- To drink(Qal) · (Niphal) to be drunk
How it's translated
- to drink 25
- and they drank 11
- and to drink 11
- you will drink 11
- they will drink 11
- and he drank 10
- drink 9
- and drink 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 20
- Ezekiel 15
- Genesis 14
- Isaiah 14
- Jeremiah 13
- Exodus 11
34 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 7:6In contextAnd when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?
- Zechariah 9:15In contextThe LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
- Genesis 9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
- Genesis 24:14And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.
- Genesis 24:18And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
- Genesis 24:19And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.
All 193 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁתָה shatah · to drink
1) to drink 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to drink 1a1a) of drinking cup of God's wrath, of slaughter, of wicked deeds (fig) 1a2) to feast 1b) (Niphal) to be drunk Aramaic equivalent: she.tah (שְׁתָה "to drink" H8355)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.