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Hebrew verb · H7937

שָׁכַר

shakarshaw-kar'

be drunk

19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shâkar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7937is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 19
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7937

to become tipsy; in a qualified sense, to satiate with astimulating drink or (figuratively) influence

The King James renders it: (be filled with) drink (abundantly), (be, make) drunk(-en), be merry. (Superlative of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)

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

shakar is rendered "be drunk". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 9:21But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
  • The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.

The first use

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:21וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑ר

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Jeremiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and become drunk2
  • you will become drunk2
  • and he became drunk1
  • and he made drunk him1
  • and I made drunk them1
  • and I will make drunk1
  • and I will make drunk them1
  • and O drunken1
  • and they became drunk1
  • I will make drunk1
  • make drunk it1
  • making drunk1

and 5 more, 19 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.

שָׁכַבshakabto lie down: lay downUses212
שָׁכַןshakanto dwellUses129
שָׁכַחshakachto forgetUses102
שָׁכַםshakamto riseUses65
שָׁכֹלshakolbe bereavedUses23
שָׁכֵןshakenneighboringUses20
שָׁכַךְshakakto subsideUses5
שָׁכֵחַshakeachforgetfulUses2
שָׁכָהshakahto lustUses1

All 19, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

19 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

  • אַשְׁכִּ֤יר1
  • הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּ1
  • וַאֲשַׁכְּרֵ֖ם1
  • וְ֠הִשְׁכַּרְתִּי1
  • וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙1
  • וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑ר1
  • וַֽיְשַׁכְּרֵ֑הוּ1
  • וַֽיִּשְׁכְּר֖וּ1
  • וְשִׁכְר֖וּ1
  • וְשִׁכְרוּ֙1
  • וּשְׁכֻרַ֖ת1
  • יִשְׁכָּר֑וּן1

and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural2HC/Vqv2mp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singular2HVqi2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Aafsc
  • Hc/Vhq1cs1Hc/Vhq1cs
  • Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mp1Hc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mp
  • HC/Vpu1cs/Sp3mp1HC/Vpu1cs/Sp3mp
  • Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
  • verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhv2mp/Sp3ms

Genesis

two uses
  • But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

    Genesis 9:21

    • וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑רvaiyishkarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he became drunk
  • When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

    Genesis 43:34

    • וַֽיִּשְׁכְּר֖וּvaiyishkeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they became drunk

Deuteronomy

one use
  • I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

    Deuteronomy 32:42

    • אַשְׁכִּ֤ירʾashkirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make drunk

1 Samuel

one use
  • and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”

    1 Samuel 1:14

    • תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִ֑יןtishtakarinverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + paragogic nuntagged: will you be drunk

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then David invited Uriah to eat and drink with him, and he got Uriah drunk. And in the evening Uriah went out to lie down on his cot with his master’s servants, but he did not go home.

    2 Samuel 11:13

    • וַֽיְשַׁכְּרֵ֑הוּvayshakerehuHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he made drunk him

Song of Solomon

one use
  • I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; drink freely, O beloved.

    Song of Solomon 5:1

    • וְשִׁכְר֖וּveshikhruconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and become drunk

Isaiah

four uses
  • Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

    Isaiah 29:9

    • שָֽׁכְר֣וּshakheruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people have become drunk
  • I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

    Isaiah 49:26

    • יִשְׁכָּר֑וּןyishkarunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will become drunk
  • Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

    Isaiah 51:21

    • וּשְׁכֻרַ֖תushekhuratconjunction (“and”) + adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and O drunken
  • I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk and poured out their blood on the ground.”

    Isaiah 63:6

    • וַאֲשַׁכְּרֵ֖םvaashakeremHC/Vpu1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I made drunk them

Jeremiah

five uses
  • “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’

    Jeremiah 25:27

    • וְשִׁכְרוּ֙veshikhruconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and become drunk
  • “Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

    Jeremiah 48:26

    • הַשְׁכִּירֻ֕הוּhashkiruhuverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: make drunk it
  • Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.

    Jeremiah 51:7

    • מְשַׁכֶּ֖רֶתmeshakeretverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: making drunk
  • 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.

    Jeremiah 51:39

    • וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים֙vehishkartimHc/Vhq1cs/Sp3mptagged: and I will make drunk them
  • I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.

    Jeremiah 51:57

    • וְ֠הִשְׁכַּרְתִּיvehishkartiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will make drunk

Lamentations

one use
  • So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.

    Lamentations 4:21

    • תִּשְׁכְּרִ֖יtishkeriverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you will become drunk

Nahum

one use
  • You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

    Nahum 3:11

    • תִּשְׁכְּרִ֔יtishkeriverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you will become drunk

Habakkuk

one use
  • Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

    Habakkuk 2:15

    • שַׁכֵּ֑רshakerverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: you make drunk

Haggai

one use
  • You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

    Haggai 1:6

    • לְשָׁכְרָ֔הleshakherahpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to become drunk

The letters

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 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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