methyō · be drunk

What it means

methyō (μεθύω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “be drunk”.

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 have one's mind clouded from drinking too much wine.

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

How it is translated

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

• drunk ×6
• drunkards ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• John×1
• Acts×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 24:49

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

• John 2:10

  and says to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, the poorer wine; you have kept the good wine until now.”

• Acts 2:15

  For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day.

• 1 Corinthians 11:21

  for in eating, each one goes ahead with his own supper, and one is hungry and another gets drunk.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:7

  For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

• Revelation 17:2

  with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

• Revelation 17:6

  And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was amazed with great amazement.