Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4960
מִשְׁתֶּה
mishtehmish-teh'
feast
46 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4960is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 23spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4960
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
The King James renders it: banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
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
mishteh is rendered "feast". It stands 46 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-three different ways.
The first use
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 19:3מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a feast17
- the feast9
- a feast of3
- feast3
- at feast of2
- drink his2
- feast of2
- feast their2
- and a feast1
- and drink1
- drink their1
- drink your1
and 2 more, 46 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִשְׁפָּט | mishpat | justice: judgement | Uses422 |
| מִשְׁפָּחָה | mishpachah | family | Uses303 |
| מִשְׁכָּן | mishkan | tabernacle | Uses139 |
| מִשְׁמֶרֶת | mishmereth | charge | Uses78 |
| מִשְׁקָל | mishqal | weight | Uses49 |
| מִשְׁכָּב | mishkab | bed | Uses46 |
| מִשְׁנֶה | mishneh | Second [Quarter] | Uses35 |
| מִשְׁמָר | mishmar | custody | Uses22 |
| מִשְׁעֵנָה | mishenah | support | Uses12 |
| מִשְׁלוֹחַ | mishloach | sending | Uses10 |
| מִשְׁכַּב | mishkab | bed | Uses6 |
| מִשְׁעֵן | mishen | support | Uses5 |
and 16 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 46, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
23 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
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה6
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה4
- מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה4
- מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה4
- מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה4
- מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה3
- בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה2
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙2
- מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃2
- מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם2
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה1
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֜ה1
and 11 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular20HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HR/Ncmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmsc/Sp2mp
Genesis
five uses
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
- מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃mishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֖הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
Judges
three uses
Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙hamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
1 Samuel
two uses
When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֨הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
- כְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣הkemishtehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like feast of
2 Samuel
one use
When Abner and twenty of his men came to David at Hebron, David held a feast for them.
- מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃mishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
1 Kings
one use
Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֖הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
Ezra
one use
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.
- וּמִשְׁתֶּ֜הumishtehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and drink
Esther
twenty uses
In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֖הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
- מִשְׁתֵּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a feast of
Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
- מִשְׁתֵּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: feast of
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
And as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣הbemishtehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at feast of
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙hamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֥הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣הbemishtehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: at feast of
In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
- מִמִּשְׁתֵּ֣הmimishtehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from feast of
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- מִשְׁתֵּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: feast of
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֖הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֥הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: feast
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֥הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: feast
This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- וּמִשְׁתֶּ֖הumishtehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a feast
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: feast
Job
two uses
Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
- הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֜הhamishtehthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the feast
Proverbs
one use
All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֥הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
Ecclesiastes
one use
It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֔הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
Isaiah
three uses
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑םmishteihemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: feast their
On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.
- מִשְׁתֵּ֥הmishtehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a feast of
- מִשְׁתֵּ֣הmishtehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a feast of
Jeremiah
two uses
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
- מִשְׁתֶּ֥הmishtehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a feast
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
- מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗םmishteihemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: feast their
Daniel
four uses
The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.
- מִשְׁתָּ֔יוmishtavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: drink his
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
- מִשְׁתָּ֑יוmishtavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: drink his
but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
- מִשְׁתֵּיכֶ֑םmishteikhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: drink your
So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
- מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑םmishteihemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: drink their
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
