שִׁכֹּר shikkor

Hebrew word for “drunken” · Strong’s H7910 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) drunken; 1a) drunken; 1b) drunkard, drunken one (subst)

How it is translated

Glosses given for shikkor in context, with how often each is used:

• drunken 3
• like drunkard 3
• drunkards 3
• drunkard 2
• drunken woman 1
• drunk 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Isaiah 28 (2), 1 Samuel 1 (1), 1 Samuel 25 (1), 1 Kings 16 (1), 1 Kings 20 (1), Job 12 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Proverbs 26 (1), Isaiah 19 (1), Isaiah 24 (1)

Forms

• שׁכור 5
• כשׁכור 3
• לשׁכרה 1
• שׁכר 1
• שׁכרי 1
• שׁכורי 1
• שׁכורים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shikkor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נוּעַ nua “to shake” 3
• גֵּאוּת geut “majesty” 2
• יַיִן yayin “wine” 3
• שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 3
• עֲטָרָה atarah “crown” 2
• תָּעָה taah “to go astray” 2
• לֵב lev “heart” 3
• אוֹר or “light” 2
• אֶפְרַיִם ephrayim “Ephraim” 2
• קֶרֶב qerev “entrails” 2
• פֶּה peh “lip” 2
• דָּבָר davar “word” 2

Key verses

The verses using shikkor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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.
• 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…
• 1 Kings 16:9 — And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his…
• 1 Kings 20:16 — And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk 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 man.
• Psalms 107:27 — They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
• 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 man staggereth in his vomit.
• Isaiah 24:20 — The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall,…
• Isaiah 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are…
• Isaiah 28:3 — The crown of pride, the drunkards 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 man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the…
• Joel 1:5 — Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.