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# שִׁכֹּור

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7910

**drunken** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drunken [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7910/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁכֹּר: adj. drunken [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7910/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. drunken (BaNB § 134 b);—abs. שִׁכֹּר 1 S 25:36, שִׁכּוֹר 1 K 16:9 +, f. שִׁכֹּרָה 1 S 1:13, pl. שִׁכּוֹרִים Jo 1:5, cstr. שִׁכֹּרֵי Is 28:1; 3;—drunken: 1 S 25:36, אִישׁ שׁ׳ Je 23:9, שֹׁתֶה שׁ׳ 1 K 16:9 drinking (and) drunken, 20:16; as subst. = drunken one, drunkard Is 28:1, 3 Pr 26:9, pl. Jo 1:5 (‖ שֹׁתֵי יַיִן); in sim. Is 19:14; Jb 12:25 ψ 107:27, and (of earth) Is 24:20; f. of drunken woman 1 S 1:13.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: drunkard (3); drunken (2); of the drunkards (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 28:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.28.3/#tree)

בְּרַגְלַ֖יִם תֵּֽרָמַ֑סְנָה עֲטֶ֥רֶת גֵּא֖וּת שִׁכּוֹרֵ֥י אֶפְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* with feet they.will.be.trampled the.crown of.(the).pride of.the.drunkards of.Ephraim

*JPS 1917:* The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot;

[Proverbs 26:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.26.9/#tree)

ח֭וֹחַ עָלָ֣ה בְיַד־שִׁכּ֑וֹר וּ֝מָשָׁ֗ל בְּפִ֣י כְסִילִֽים׃

*Word for word:* a.thornbush it.goes.up in.\[the\] hand of.a.drunkard and a.proverb in.\[the\] mouth of.fools

*JPS 1917:* As a thorn that cometh into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7910/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).