Greek noun (feminine) · G3178
μέθη
methemeth'-ay
drunkenness
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: méthē
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3178is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3178
an intoxicant, i.e. (by implication) intoxication
The King James renders it: drunkenness.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
methe is rendered "drunkenness". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 21:34But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
Luke 21:34μέθῃ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- drunkenness1
- drunkennesses1
- in drinking1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μέθαι1
- μέθαις1
- μέθῃ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1N-DSF
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine plural1N-NPF
Luke
one use
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.
- μέθῃmethenoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: drunkenness
Romans
one use
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- μέθαιςmethaisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: in drinking
Galatians
one use
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- μέθαιmethainoun · nominative (subject) · feminine pluraltagged: drunkennesses
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.