shetah (to drink)

Meaning

(P'al) to drink

How it's translated

drinking 2
so they may drink 1
and they drank 1
they drank 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 5

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Explore in Scripture

Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
Daniel 5:3In contextThen they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
Daniel 5:4In contextThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:

Aramaic dictionary

שְׁתָה shetah · to drink

(P'al) to drink Aramaic of sha.tah (שָׁתָה "to drink" H8354)

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.