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# שְׁתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8358

**drinking** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

drinking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׁתִי: drinking, drinking-bout [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drinking, drinking-bout;—Ec 10:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: drinking (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 10:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.17/#tree)

אַשְׁרֵ֣יךְ אֶ֔רֶץ שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ בֶּן־חוֹרִ֑ים וְשָׂרַ֙יִךְ֙ בָּעֵ֣ת יֹאכֵ֔לוּ בִּגְבוּרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א בַשְּׁתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* how blessed.\[are\].you O.land which king your \[is\].a.son of.nobles and princes your at the.appropriate time they.eat for strength and not for (the) drinking

*JPS 1917:* Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8358.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/): 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).