pinō · drink

What it means

pinō (πίνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “drink”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To take water, wine or another liquid by mouth.
2. To drink the cup of suffering, or take in deeply.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

To drink. Of the same group are ποτήριον (cup) and ποτίζω (give to drink). Besides the plain sense, the Bible speaks of drinking a cup as accepting what that cup brings.

• Eating and drinking: everyday life Luke 17:27Luke 12:19
• Drinking the water Jesus gives John 4:14
• Drinking his blood John 6:54John 6:56
• Drinking from the cup at the supper Mark 14:23Mark 14:251 Corinthians 11:26
• Drinking the cup he drinks: suffering Mark 10:38

How we translate it

Always “drink” in its forms (“drink” 48 times, “drinking” 9, “drinks” 9, “drank” 4). In Revelation 18:3 the translation says “have fallen”, following another reading of the Greek in that place.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• drink ×48
• drinking ×9
• drinks ×9
• drank ×4
• have fallen ×1
• who has drunk ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×14
• Mark×8
• Luke×17
• John×11
• Acts×3
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×14
• Hebrews×1
• Revelation×3

• Matthew 6:31

  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’

• Matthew 11:18

  For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Matthew 11:19

  The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ And wisdom was declared righteous by her works.”

• Matthew 20:22

  But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” They say to him, “We can.”

• Matthew 20:23

  He says to them, “My cup you will drink, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 24:38

  For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah went into the ark,

• Matthew 24:49

  and begins to beat his fellow slaves, and eats and drinks with the drunkards,

• Matthew 26:27

  And taking a cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you,

• Matthew 26:29

  But I tell you, I will never drink from now on of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”

• Matthew 26:42

  Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, let your will be done.”

• Matthew 27:34

  they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink; and after tasting it, he was not willing to drink it.

• Mark 10:38

  But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed?”

• Mark 10:39

  And they said to him, “We can.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the immersion with which I am immersed you will be immersed;

• Mark 14:23

  And taking a cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

• Mark 14:25

  Truly I tell you that I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

• Mark 16:18

  they will pick up snakes; and if they drink anything deadly, it will never harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will get well.”

• Luke 1:15

  for he will be great before the Lord, and wine and intoxicating drink he will never drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.

• Luke 5:30

  And the Pharisees and their scribes were grumbling to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Luke 5:33

  And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and make petitions, and so do those of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

• Luke 5:39

  And no one who has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

• Luke 7:33

  For John the Immerser has come not eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’

• Luke 7:34

  The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a man who is a glutton and a wine drinker, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’

• Luke 10:7

  And remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things offered by them; for the worker is worthy of his wages. Do not move from house to house.

• Luke 12:19

  And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be merry.”’

• Luke 12:29

  And you, do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be unsettled.

• Luke 12:45

  But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying to come,’ and begins to beat the servants and the maids, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

• Luke 13:26

  Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

• Luke 17:8

  Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare what I may have for supper, and tie up your robe and serve me while I eat and drink, and after that you will eat and drink’?

• Luke 17:27

  they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day on which Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

• Luke 17:28

  Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building;

• Luke 22:18

  for I tell you, I will never drink from now on of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”

• Luke 22:30

  so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

• John 4:7

  A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give me something to drink.”

• John 4:9

  So the Samaritan woman says to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

• John 4:10

  Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me something to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

• John 4:12

  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

• John 4:13

  Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again;

• John 4:14

  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

• John 6:53

  So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

• John 6:54

  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

And 32 more times.