Shikkôwr — H7910

Definition

adjective

intoxicated, as astate or a habit

1. drunken
1. drunken
2. drunkard, drunken one (subst)

Usually translated as

drunken, drunk, drunkard, drunken man

Origin

or shikkôr; from H7937

• Derived from Shâkar (H7937)

Greek equivalents

• methýskō (G3182)

Occurrences

Shikkôwr occurs 13 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (2), Job (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (4), Jeremiah (1), Joel (1)

• 1 Samuel 1:13 — Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken (לְשִׁכֹּרָֽה).
• 1 Samuel 25:36 — And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken (שִׁכֹּ֖ר): wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk (שִׁכּ֔וֹר) in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 20:16 — And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk (שִׁכּ֜וֹר) in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
• Job 12:25 — They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken (כַּשִּׁכּֽוֹר) man.
• Psalms 107:27 — They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man (כַּשִּׁכּ֑וֹר), and are at their wits’ end.
• Proverbs 26:9 — As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard (שִׁכּ֑וֹר), so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
• Isaiah 19:14 — The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken (שִׁכּ֖וֹר) man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isaiah 24:20 — The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard (כַּשִּׁכּ֔וֹר), and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
• Isaiah 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards (שִׁכֹּרֵ֣י) of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
• Isaiah 28:3 — The crown of pride, the drunkards (שִׁכּוֹרֵ֥י) of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:
• Jeremiah 23:9 — Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken (שִׁכּ֔וֹר) man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
• Joel 1:5 — Awake, ye drunkards (שִׁכּוֹרִים֙), and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.