μέθυσος
méthysos · G3183 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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drunkard, heavy drinker
A person who habitually drinks too much and thus becomes a drunkard
Examples1 Corinthians 5:11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person.
1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor those habitually drunk, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
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Near synonyms 2 words
- πάροινος pároinos · G3943 · drunkard, heavy drinker
- μέθυσος denotes a habitual drunkard (one characterized by the state of drunkenness), while πάροινος describes one who stays near wine or is prone to drunken behavior (a tippler); both terms designate chronic excessive drinking rather than a single episode of intoxication, with πάροινος emphasizing the behavioral pattern of lingering at wine and μέθυσος the resulting state of habitual inebriation.
- οἰνοπότης oinopótēs · G3630 · drunkard, heavy drinker
- Both denote habitual excessive drinkers. μέθυσος emphasizes the state or condition of being drunk (a drunkard, sot), while οἰνοπότης emphasizes the activity of wine-drinking to excess (a wine-bibber, tippler). The terms are functionally synonymous in referring to those characterized by habitual intoxication.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Drunkard, heavy drinker88.288
- This lexeme refers to a person habitually given to drunkenness. 1 Corinthians 5:11 lists “or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk” among the vices Paul names.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μεθύσῃ, μέθυσον, in later Greek also of two terminations (μέθυ, see μέθη), drunken,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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