Word

סֹבֶא

çôbeʼ · H5435 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Strong drink, beerFood and Drink24 verses

Meanings

strong drink, liquor

Kind of alcoholic beverage

Examples
Isaiah 1:22 Your silver has become waste matter, Your drink diluted with water.
Hosea 4:18 Their liquor is gone, They prostitute themselves continually; Their rulers dearly love shame.
Nahum 1:10 Like tangled thorns, And like those who are drunken with their drink, They are consumed Like stubble completely dried up.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

הֶםtheir 2
ךְyour 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מָהַלto be mixed 1
סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כlike/as 2

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 2 words

חֶמֶר chemer · H2561 · (fermenting) wine: חֶמֶר (chemer, H2561) (red wine) emphasizes color/purity quality; סֹבֶא (çôbeʼ, H5435) (wine, drink) is more generic, can imply intoxication context (drunken).
יַיִן yayin · H3196 · wine: יַיִן (yayin, H3196) is the common, standard term (141×); סֹבֶא (çôbeʼ, H5435) is a rare synonym (3×), possibly emphasizing intoxicating drink.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Liquids001002005007: The word names wine or strong drink, used in the accusation that Israel's princes are companions of thieves and lovers of bribes, their silver dross and their wine diluted (Isaiah 1:22-23), tying the word to this beverage.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סָבָא çâbâʼ · H5433 · to drink in excess, to be a drunkard · 6×סֹבֶאçôbeʼ · H5435

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5435. sobe [סֹ֫בֶא] noun masculineIsa 1:22 drink, liquor; — only suffix סָבְאֵךְ Isa…

H5435. sobe
[סֹ֫בֶא] noun masculineIsa 1:22 drink, liquor; — only suffix סָבְאֵךְ Isa 1:22; סָבְאָם Hos 4:18 (but see below), Nah 1:10 (but see סָבָא ); — liquor (apparently strong, choice) Isa 1:22; ס ׳סָר Hos 4:18 their liquor (i.e. their drunkenness) is gone Thes Hi Che RVm, but very dubious, ᵐ5 quite different (ἡρέτισεν Χαναναίους), We GuKau Now omit in translation; conjecture of HoutsmaTTijdschr ix (1875), 60 סֹבְאִים סֹד, a company of wine-bibbers, makes good sense.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Liquids3 occurrences

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