Word

שְׁתָה

shᵉthâh · H8355 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

to drink

Action by which humans or animals consume water or other liquids

Examples
Daniel 5:1 Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine in the presence of the thousand.
Daniel 5:2 While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.
Daniel 5:3 Then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives, and his concubines drank out of them.

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

5 occurrences in 3 groups

לְחֵנָהconcubine 3
Not stated: they 1
Not stated (participle) 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

חֲמַרwine 3

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with+ הֶםthem 3
לto/for+ קְבֵלbefore 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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In the other Testament 1 word

πίνω pínō · G4095 · to drink, drinking, to absorb: πίνω is the standard Greek verb for 'to drink,' serving as the direct translation equivalent for the Aramaic שְׁתָה across biblical contexts where drinking action is denoted.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Ingest002001001025: Daniel 5:4 recounts that at Belshazzar's banquet, the guests "drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver."
Engage002003003011: This Engage code is inherited from the shared listing with שָׁתָה (shâthâh, H8354) (שָׁתָה, 'to drink up; to undergo; to engage in' in a broader idiomatic sense); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested literal wine-drinking sense.
Festivals002002002011: Daniel 5:1 recounts that "Belshazzar the king held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he was drinking wine."

Word family 6 words

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

שָׁתָה shâthâh · H8354 · to drink, to drink up, to undergo · 217×מִשְׁתֶּה mishteh · H4960 · drinking, feast · 46×שְׁתָהshᵉthâh · H8355מִשְׁתֶּה mishteh · H4961 · banquet · 1×שְׁתִי shᵉthîy · H8358 · woven or knitted material, drinking · 1×שְׁתִיָּה shᵉthîyâh · H8360 · drinking · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8355. shethah [שְׁתָה] verb drink (אִשְׁתִּי שְׁתָא, ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew I.…

H8355. shethah
[שְׁתָה] verb drink (אִשְׁתִּי שְׁתָא, ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew I. שָׁתָה); —
Pe`al Perfect3masculine plural אִשְׁתִּיו (K§ 11, 4, a))Dan 5:3-4, Imperfect3masculine plural יִשְׁתּוֺן Dan 5:2; Participle active שָׁתֵה Dan 5:1, plural שָׁתַ֫יִן; — drink, accusative wine Dan 5:1, Dan 5:4, + ב of vessel Dan 5:23 and (accusative omitted) Dan 5:2; Dan 5:3.

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

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