Drunkenness
שְׁתִיStrong’s H8358sheti (she-ti)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Sheti is the Hebrew word usually translated “drinking”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!”
Meaning
- A drinking, drinking bout Ec 10:17
How it's translated
- for drinking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁתִי sheti · drunkenness
a drinking, drinking bout Ec 10:17
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.