Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7941
שֵׁכָר
shekarshay-kawr'
strong drink
23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shêkâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7941is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7941
an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor
The King James renders it: strong drink, [phrase] drunkard, strong wine.
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
shekar is rendered "strong drink". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 10:9“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.
Leviticus 10:9וְשֵׁכָ֞ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's twenty-three uses are in Isaiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- strong drink11
- and strong drink7
- and for the strong drink1
- and of the strong drink1
- and with the strong drink1
- the strong drink1
- with the strong drink1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- שֵׁכָֽר׃4
- שֵׁכָ֖ר3
- וְשֵׁכָר֙2
- וְשֵׁכָ֖ר2
- שֵׁכָ֑ר2
- שֵׁכָ֣ר2
- בַשֵּׁכָ֜ר1
- הַשֵּׁכָ֔ר1
- וּבַשֵּׁכָ֔ר1
- וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖ר1
- וְלַשֵּׁכָ֑ר1
- וְשֵׁכָ֞ר1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular11HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular7HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular3HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Leviticus
one use
“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink when you enter the Tent of Meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- וְשֵׁכָ֞רveshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
Numbers
three uses
he is to abstain from wine and strong drink. He must not drink vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and he must not drink any grape juice or eat fresh grapes or raisins.
- וְשֵׁכָר֙veshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
- שֵׁכָ֖רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
- שֵׁכָ֖רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Deuteronomy
two uses
Then you may spend the money on anything you desire: cattle, sheep, wine, strong drink, or anything you wish. You are to feast there in the presence of the LORD your God and rejoice with your household.
- וּבַשֵּׁכָ֔רuvashekharconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the strong drink
You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
- וְשֵׁכָ֖רveshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
Judges
three uses
Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
- וְשֵׁכָ֑רveshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
- וְשֵׁכָ֗רveshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
- וְשֵׁכָר֙veshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
1 Samuel
one use
“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman oppressed in spirit. I have not had any wine or strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the LORD.
- וְשֵׁכָ֖רveshekharconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and strong drink
Psalms
one use
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
- שֵׁכָֽר׃shekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Proverbs
three uses
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- שֵׁכָ֑רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,
- שֵׁכָֽר׃shekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Give strong drink to one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter in soul.
- שֵׁכָ֣רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Isaiah
eight uses
Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.
- שֵׁכָ֣רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine and champions in mixing strong drink,
- שֵׁכָֽר׃shekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
- שֵׁכָ֖רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
- וּבַשֵּׁכָ֖רuvashekharconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and with the strong drink
- בַשֵּׁכָ֜רvashekharpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: with the strong drink
- הַשֵּׁכָ֔רhashekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the strong drink
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
- שֵׁכָֽר׃shekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
- שֵׁכָ֑רshekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: strong drink
Micah
one use
If a man of wind were to come and say falsely, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be just the preacher for this people!
- וְלַשֵּׁכָ֑רvelashekharconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and of the strong drink
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.