σίκερα
síkera · G4608 · Greek · 1 occurrence
A word for 2 things
- VineDomestic trees and shrubs418 verses
- Strong drink, beerFood and Drink24 verses
Meanings
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beer
An intoxicating drink made from grain
ExamplesLuke 1:15 “For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; and he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πίνωto drink 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- οἶνος oînos · G3631 · wine, new wine, grape juice
- The most common Greek term for intoxicating drink. While οἶνος specifically denotes wine (from grapes) and σίκερα denotes other fermented/intoxicating beverages (often grain-based), they function as near synonyms in the semantic domain of alcoholic drinks and frequently appear in parallel constructions (e.g., Luke 1:15 'neither wine nor strong drink').
In the other Testament 1 word
- שֵׁכָר shêkâr · H7941 · date-wine
- The Hebrew term for strong/intoxicating drink, the direct translation equivalent used in the LXX to render σίκερα (e.g., Luke 1:15 reflects the Hebrew idiom from passages like Num 6:3, Judg 13:4). This is the standard Hebrew-Greek lexical pairing for this semantic field.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Beer6.200
- The noun names a fermented intoxicant distinct from wine. Gabriel announces John's birth: “he will drink no wine or liquor, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while yet in his mother's womb” (Luke 1:15).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τό (Hebrew שֵׁכָר (rather, according to Kautzsch (Gram., p. 11) for שִׁכְרָא (properly,…
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
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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