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יַיִן

yayin · wine

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3196 · appears 141 times in the Bible

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What it means

yayin (יַיִן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wine”.

Also drunkenness.

How to say it

ya·yin

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. A fermented drink of grapes, which gladdens the heart and can also intoxicate.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Wine, fermented; by implication, drunkenness.

Historical and cultural background

Numbers 6:3 orders the Nazirite to “separate himself from wine and intoxicating drink”, and not to drink vinegar of wine or any juice of grapes, nor eat grapes, “fresh or dried”.

How we translate it

“Wine” 138 times, “wineskins” 2, “grapevine” 1. It is distinguished from תִּירוֹשׁ, “new wine”, and from שֵׁכָר, “intoxicating drink”, which often goes with this word.

How it is translated

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

  • wine ×138
  • wineskins ×2
  • grapevine ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 9:21

    And he drank of the wine and became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

  • Genesis 9:24

    And Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him.

  • Genesis 14:18

    And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of El Elyon.

  • Genesis 19:32

    Come, let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

  • Genesis 19:33

    So they made their father drink wine that night; and the older went in and lay with her father, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

  • Genesis 19:34

    The next day the older said to the younger, “Look, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go in and lie with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father.”

  • Genesis 19:35

    So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger got up and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she rose.

  • Genesis 27:25

    He said, “Bring it near to me, and let me eat of the game of my son, so that I may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

  • Genesis 49:11

    Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washes his garment in wine and his robe in the blood of grapes.

  • Genesis 49:12

    His eyes are dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

  • Exodus 29:40

    And a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil, and a libation of a quarter of a hin of wine, for the one lamb.

  • Leviticus 10:9

    “Do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the tent of meeting, so that you do not die; it is a statute forever throughout your generations,

  • Leviticus 23:13

    and its grain offering, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to YHWH, a pleasing aroma; and its libation of wine, a fourth of a hin.

  • Numbers 6:3

    he shall separate himself from wine and intoxicating drink; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or vinegar of intoxicating drink, and he shall not drink any juice of grapes, nor eat grapes, fresh or dried.

  • Numbers 6:4

    All the days of his consecration he shall not eat anything that is made from the vine of wine, from seeds to skin.

  • Numbers 6:20

    And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

  • Numbers 15:5

    and wine for the libation, a quarter of a hin, you shall offer with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

  • Numbers 15:7

    and wine for the libation, a third of a hin, you shall present, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

  • Numbers 15:10

    and wine you shall present for the libation, half a hin, a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH.

  • Numbers 28:14

    And their libations shall be half a hin for a bull, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb, of wine. This is the burnt offering of each month for the months of the year.

  • Deuteronomy 14:26

    And you shall spend the silver on all that your soul desires: on oxen or on sheep, on wine or on intoxicating drink, or on anything that your soul asks of you; and you shall eat there before YHWH your Elohim and rejoice, you and your household.

  • Deuteronomy 28:39

    You will plant vineyards and work them, but wine you will not drink nor gather, for the worm will eat them.

  • Deuteronomy 29:6

    Bread you have not eaten, and wine and intoxicating drink you have not drunk, so that you may know that I am YHWH your Elohim.”

  • Deuteronomy 32:33

    The venom of serpents is their wine, and the cruel poison of vipers.

  • Deuteronomy 32:38

    who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be a hiding place over you.

  • Joshua 9:4

    and they too acted with cunning: they went and posed as envoys, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins worn-out, torn, and mended,

  • Joshua 9:13

    And these wineskins that we filled new, look, they have split; and these cloaks of ours and our sandals have worn out from the very great length of the journey.”

  • Judges 13:4

    Now be careful, please, and do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, and do not eat anything unclean.

  • Judges 13:7

    But he said to me, ‘Look, you will be pregnant and bear a son; so now do not drink wine or intoxicating drink, and do not eat any uncleanness, for the boy shall be a Nazirite of Elohim from the womb until the day of his death.’”

  • Judges 13:14

    Of anything that comes from the grapevine she shall not eat, and wine or intoxicating drink she shall not drink, and any uncleanness she shall not eat. All that I commanded her she shall keep.”

  • Judges 19:19

    And there is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also there is bread and wine for me and for your maidservant and for the young man who is with your servants; there is no lack of any thing.”

  • 1 Samuel 1:14

    And Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine from you.”

  • 1 Samuel 1:15

    And Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord; I am a woman troubled in spirit. Wine and intoxicating drink I have not drunk, but I have poured out my soul before YHWH.

  • 1 Samuel 1:24

    And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

  • 1 Samuel 10:3

    Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

  • 1 Samuel 16:20

    Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a skin of wine, and one young goat, and sent them by the hand of David his son to Saul.

  • 1 Samuel 25:18

    Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

  • 1 Samuel 25:37

    In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things; and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.

  • 2 Samuel 13:28

    Absalom commanded his young men, saying, “Watch, please: when the heart of Amnon is merry with wine and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not be afraid. Is it not I who have commanded you? Be strong and be valiant.”

  • 2 Samuel 16:1

    David had gone on a little from the summit, and there was Ziba, the young man of Mephibosheth, to meet him, with a pair of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.

And 101 more times.