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Lexicon :: Strong's G3184 - methyō

Aa
μεθύω
Transliteration
methyō (Key)
Pronunciation
meth-oo'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From another form of μέθη (G3178)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:545,576

Strong’s Definitions

μεθύω methýō, meth-oo'-o; from another form of G3178; to drink to intoxication, i.e. get drunk:—drink well, make (be) drunk(-en).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G3184 in the following manner: be drunken (5x), have well drunk (1x), be made drunk (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G3184 in the following manner: be drunken (5x), have well drunk (1x), be made drunk (1x).

  1. to be drunken

  2. metaph. of one who has shed blood or murdered profusely

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μεθύω methýō, meth-oo'-o; from another form of G3178; to drink to intoxication, i.e. get drunk:—drink well, make (be) drunk(-en).
STRONGS G3184:
μεθύω (from μέθυ, see μέθη); from Homer down; the Sept. for רָוָה and שָׁכַר; to be drunken: Matthew 24:49; Acts 2:15; 1 Corinthians 11:21; 1 Thessalonians 5:7 (cf. Buttmann, 62 (54)); ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος (see ἐκ, II. 5; Tr marginal reading τῷ αἵματι), of one who has shed blood profusely, Revelation 17:6 (Pliny, h. n. 14, 28 (22)ebrius jam sanguine civium et tanto magis eum sitiens).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
24:49
Acts
2:15
1 Corinthians
11:21
1 Thessalonians
5:7
Revelation
17:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3184 matches the Greek μεθύω (methyō),
which occurs 42 times in 42 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:21 - and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:34 - And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:42 -
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,
And my sword shall devour flesh;
With the blood of the slain and the captives,
From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:13 - Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:14 - And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:13 - And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:9 - And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:16 - And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:25 -
They grope in the dark without light;
And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 -
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou hast anointed my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:8 -
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house;
And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:9 -
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it,
Thou greatly enrichest it;
The river of God is full of water:
Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:10 -
Thou waterest its furrows abundantly;
Thou settlest the ridges thereof:
Thou makest it soft with showers;
Thou blessest the springing thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:27 -
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man,
And are at their wits’ end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:17 -
For they eat the bread of wickedness,
And drink the wine of violence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 -
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
When it sparkleth in the cup,
When it goeth down smoothly:

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:1 -
I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride:
I have gathered my myrrh with my spice;
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey;
I have drunk my wine with my milk.
Eat, O friends;
Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:14 - Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:20 - The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:5 - For my sword hath drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:7 - And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:26 - And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, am thy Saviour, and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:21 - Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:11 - and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 - And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:14 - And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:25 - For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 - For that day is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:26 - Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Jehovah: and Moab shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39 - When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:57

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:57 - And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:15 -
He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 -
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz:
The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 14:7 - They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:5 - Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:11 - Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:15 - Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
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