Lexicon
μεθύω
methuō
G3184
G:V Greek

to get drunk

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Methuo describes being or becoming drunk, including being made drunk and being drunk with blood in a vision.

The dominant use describes people as drunk or becoming drunk in settings of eating, drinking, wine, or night. Two Revelation clauses extend the description to people made drunk from wine and to a woman described as drunk with blood.

Senses in use

  1. Being or becoming drunk · dominant

    Present active forms describe people who get drunk in 1 Corinthians 11:21 and 1 Thessalonians 5:7; the APB renders the relevant clauses "another gets drunk" and "those who get drunk, get drunk at night." Acts 2:15 denies that "these are not drunk," while John 2:10 places the aorist passive subjunctive plural form in the clause about guests having "become drunk"; Matthew 24:49 has a present active participle for those with whom the servant eats and drinks.

  2. Being made drunk from wine · occasional

    In Revelation 17:2, the aorist passive indicative plural form concerns the dwellers of the earth in the clause that the APB renders "were made drunk out from the wine of her sexual sin."

  3. Described as drunk with blood · occasional

    In Revelation 17:6, the present active participle accusative singular feminine describes the woman; the APB renders her as "drunk with the blood of the holy ones and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus."

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses "gets drunk," "get drunk," "not drunk," and "become drunk" in the ordinary drinking contexts. In Revelation it renders the clauses "were made drunk" and "drunk with," but the translation does not identify a one-to-one English equivalent for the Greek form.

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Across Scripture