שָׁכַר shakhar
Hebrew word for “be drunk” · Strong’s H7937 · used 19 times in 19 verses
Meaning
1) to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated;
How it is translated
Glosses given for shakhar in context, with how often each is used:
- will make drunk 3
- become drunk 3
- became drunk 2
- made drunk 2
- will become drunk 2
- will you be drunk ! 1
- people have become drunk 1
- will become drunk ! 1
- drunken one 1
- make drunk 1
- making drunk 1
- make them drunk 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 | |
| Habakkuk | 1 | 1.5 | |
| Haggai | 1 | 1.7 |
Chapters where it is used most
Jeremiah 51 (3), Genesis 9 (1), Genesis 43 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), 1 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 11 (1), Song of Solomon 5 (1), Isaiah 29 (1), Isaiah 49 (1), Isaiah 51 (1)
Forms
- ושׁכרו 2
- תשׁכרי 2
- וישׁכר 1
- וישׁכרו 1
- אשׁכיר 1
- תשׁתכרין 1
- וישׁכרהו 1
- שׁכרו 1
- ישׁכרון 1
- ושׁכרת 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with shakhar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 7
- יַיִן yayin “wine” 6
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 5
- יָשֵׁן yashen “to sleep” 2
- חָמַם chamam “to warm” 2
- קִיץ quts “to awake” 2
- שֵׁנָה shenah “sleep” 2
- כּוֹס kos “cup” 2
- גַּם gam “also” 3
- חֵמָה chemah “rage” 2
- רֵעַ rea “neighbor” 2
- עִם im “with” 3
Key verses
The verses using shakhar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 32:42 — I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of…
- Song of Solomon 5:1 — I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
- Isaiah 29:9 — Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
- Isaiah 49:26 — And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that…
- Jeremiah 25:27 — Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of…
- Jeremiah 48:26 — Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
- Jeremiah 51:7 — Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
- Jeremiah 51:39 — In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 51:57 — And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake,…
- Lamentations 4:21 — Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make…
- Habakkuk 2:15 — Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
- Haggai 1:6 — Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and…
See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas
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.