Methýō — G3184

Definition

verb

to drink to intoxication, i.e. get drunk

1. to be drunken

Usually translated as

drunken, drunk, drink well, make

Origin

from another form of G3178

• méthē (G3178)

Occurrences

Methýō occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), John (1), Acts (1), 1 Corinthians (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), Revelation (2)

• Matthew 24:49 — And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken (μεθυόντων);
• John 2:10 — And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk (μεθυσθῶσιν), then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
• Acts 2:15 — For these are not drunken (μεθύουσιν), as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
• 1 Corinthians 11:21 — For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken (μεθύει).
• 1 Thessalonians 5:7 — For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken (μεθύουσιν) in the night.
• Revelation 17:2 — With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
• Revelation 17:6 — And I saw the woman drunken (μεθύουσαν) with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.