Lexicon
שֵׁכָר
she.khar
H7941
H:N-M Hebrew

strong drink

23
Occurrences
9
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.khar denotes a drink named alongside wine, appearing in drinking, abstinence, offering, and warning contexts.

The occurrences present she.khar as a drink regularly named alongside wine: it is consumed or sought, withheld under specific commands, poured as an offering, and associated in several verses with impaired conduct or judgment. The supplied morphology identifies each attested token as a masculine singular absolute noun.

Senses in use

  1. A drink named alongside wine · dominant

    In Deuteronomy 14:26 the drink is among what a household may obtain and consume before the LORD; in Numbers 28:7 the APB renders a drink offering of it poured to the LORD. It is also the drink prohibited with wine in Leviticus 10:9 and Judges 13:4, while Isaiah 28:7 associates repeated drinking of it with going astray, staggering in vision, and stumbling in judgment.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across most supplied verses, the APB presents the term as “strong drink,” usually beside “wine.” In Deuteronomy 29:5 and Psalm 69:13, the supplied APB verse does not visibly reflect the term, so the translation cannot isolate its contribution there.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture