Drinking
שְׁתִיָּהStrong’s H8360shetiyyah (she-tiy-yah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shetiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “drinking”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.”
Meaning
- Drinking (mode or manner or amount)
How it's translated
- and the drinking 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׁתִיָּה shetiyyah · drinking
drinking (mode or manner or amount)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “drinking” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DRINKING, participle present
tense Swallowing liquor; sucking in; absorbing.
All definitions and other forms of “drinking”
DRINKING, noun
- The act of swallowing liquors, or of absorbing.
- The practice of drinking to excess.
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.