shechar · intoxicating drink

What it means

shechar (שֵׁכָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “intoxicating drink”.

Made from fermented grain or fruit; distinct from grape wine.

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. A strong drink, other than wine.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×8
• Micah×1

• 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,

• 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 28:7

  Its libation shall be a quarter of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place pour out a libation of intoxicating drink to YHWH.

• 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 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.”

• 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.”

• 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.

• Psalms 69:12

  Those who sit in the gate talk about me, and I am the ditties of those who drink intoxicating drink.

• Proverbs 20:1

  A scoffer is wine, a brawler intoxicating drink, and anyone who strays by it is not wise.

• Proverbs 31:4

  Not for kings, Lemuel, not for kings to drink wine, and for rulers, where is intoxicating drink?

• Proverbs 31:6

  Give intoxicating drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul;

• Isaiah 5:11

  Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after intoxicating drink, who linger into the twilight while wine inflames them!

• Isaiah 5:22

  Woe to those mighty at drinking wine, and men of vigor at mixing intoxicating drink,

• Isaiah 24:9

  With song they do not drink wine; intoxicating drink is bitter to those who drink it.

• Isaiah 28:7

  But these also stagger with wine and stray with intoxicating drink; priest and prophet stagger with intoxicating drink; they are swallowed by wine, they stray because of intoxicating drink; they stagger in vision, they stumble in giving verdict.

• Isaiah 29:9

  Linger and be astonished; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they sway, but not with intoxicating drink.

• Isaiah 56:12

  “Come, I will get wine, and we will drink ourselves drunk on intoxicating drink; and tomorrow will be like this, great, beyond measure.”

• Micah 2:11

  If a man walking in wind and falsehood should lie: ‘I will drip words to you of wine and of intoxicating drink,’ he would be the one who drips words for this people.

And 3 more times.