Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H8355
שְׁתָה
shethahsheth-aw'
to drink
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉthâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8355is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8355
{to imbibe (literally or figuratively)}
The King James renders it: drink.
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
shethah is rendered "to drink". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
Daniel 5:1שָׁתֵֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- drinking2
- and they drank1
- so they may drink1
- they drank1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- אִשְׁתִּ֖יו1
- וְאִשְׁתִּ֣יו1
- וְיִשְׁתּ֣וֹן1
- שָׁתֵֽה׃1
- שָׁתַ֣יִן1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AC/Vqp3mp
- AC/Vqu3mp1AC/Vqu3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1AVqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1AVqrmsa
Daniel
five uses
Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- שָׁתֵֽה׃shatehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: drinking
Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- וְיִשְׁתּ֣וֹןveyishtonAC/Vqu3mptagged: so they may drink
Thus they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king drank from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- וְאִשְׁתִּ֣יוveishtivconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and they drank
As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
- אִשְׁתִּ֖יוʾishtivverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they drank
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
- שָׁתַ֣יִןshatayinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: drinking
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.