μεθύω
methýō · G3184 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to be drunk, drunkenness
To become drunk on alcoholic beverages
ExamplesMatthew 24:49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves, and he eats and drinks with those habitually drunk;
Acts 2:15 “For these people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is only the third hour of the day;
1 Corinthians 11:21 for when you eat, each one takes his own supper first; and one goes hungry while another gets drunk.
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to drink freely, to drink a great deal, to get drunk
To drink wine or beer (distilled alcoholic beverages were not known in the ancient world), usually with emphasis upon drinking relatively large quantities
ExamplesJohn 2:10 and said to him, “Every man serves the good wine first, and when the guests are drunk, then he serves the poorer wine; but you have kept the good wine until now.”
1 Thessalonians 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, get drunk at night.
Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 6 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 1
- μεθύσκωto get drunk 1
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
- οὗτοςthis 1
- Not stated: they 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἴδωto know 1
- λέγωto say 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after 3
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- To drink freely, to drink a great deal, to get drunk23.37
- This sense denotes drinking freely or to excess. John 2:10 observes that a host serves the poorer wine only “when the guests are drunk.”
- To be drunk, drunkenness88.283
- This sense denotes the ongoing state of intoxication. Acts 2:15 has Peter deny that “these people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is only the third hour of the day.”
- To get drunk88.285
- This sense denotes becoming intoxicated through drink. Revelation 17:6 describes the woman as “being drunk with the blood of the saints.”
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (from μέθυ, see μέθη); from Homer down; the Sept. for רָוָה and שָׁכַר; to be drunken: Mt…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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