mishte · feast

What it means

mishte (מִשְׁתֶּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “feast”.

Banquet; 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. A party with food and drink.
2. The wine or drink that is assigned to someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Feast, banquet: a festive meal with drink. It comes from the verb שָׁתָה, ‘drink’ (H8354); that is why in Daniel 1 it also means the king’s drink.

• Family feasts: weaning, wedding, birthday Genesis 21:8Genesis 29:22Genesis 40:20
• Esther’s banquets Esther 1:3Esther 5:4Esther 7:2
• “Days of banqueting and gladness”: Purim Esther 9:22Esther 9:17
• “A feast of rich foods” Isaiah 25:6
• The king’s drink Daniel 1:5Daniel 1:8

Historical and cultural background

Esther revolves around banquets: Ahasuerus’, Queen Vashti’s, Esther’s two, and the days of banqueting the Jews set to remember their deliverance (Esther 9:17-22). Ecclesiastes 7:2 says: “Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting”.

How we translate it

“Feast” 17 times and “banquet” 16, “banqueting” 4; ‘make a feast’ renders the Hebrew expression עשׂה מִשְׁתֶּה (“Abraham made a great feast”, Genesis 21:8; “he made a banquet”, Esther 1:3). In Daniel 1 it reads “the wine he drank”, because it is what the king drank.

How it is translated

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

• feast ×17
• banquet ×16
• banqueting ×4
• drink ×3
• feasting ×2
• feasts ×2
• he drank ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Esther×20
• Job×2
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Daniel×4

• Genesis 19:3

  But he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 26:30

  He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.

• Genesis 40:20

  On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

• Judges 14:10

  His father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, for so the young men used to do.

• Judges 14:12

  And Samson said to them, “Let me propose to you, please, a riddle. If you do explain it to me within the seven days of the feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.

• Judges 14:17

  She wept over him the seven days that they had the feast; and it happened on the seventh day that he explained it to her, because she pressed him hard; and she explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

• 1 Samuel 25:36

  Abigail came to Nabal, and look, he had a feast in his house like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, and he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything, small or great, until the light of morning.

• 2 Samuel 3:20

  When Abner came to David at Hebron, and with him twenty men, David made a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him.

• 1 Kings 3:15

  And Solomon woke up, and he saw that it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of Adonai, and offered burnt offerings and offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

• Ezra 3:7

  And they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia for them.

• Esther 1:3

  in the third year of his reign, he made a banquet for all his officials and his servants: the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and the officials of the provinces being before him,

• Esther 1:5

  And when these days were completed, the king made for all the people who were present in Susa, the fortress, from the great to the small, a banquet of seven days in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

• Esther 1:9

  Vashti the queen also made a banquet for women in the royal house that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 2:18

  And the king made a great banquet for all his officials and his servants, Esther’s banquet; and he made a rest for the provinces and gave gifts according to the hand of the king.

• Esther 5:4

  And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have made for him.”

• Esther 5:5

  And the king said, “Make Haman hurry, to do the word of Esther.” And the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had made.

• Esther 5:6

  And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, “What is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”

• Esther 5:8

  if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it seems good to the king to grant my request and to do my petition, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king.”

• Esther 5:12

  And Haman said, “What is more, Esther the queen did not bring with the king to the banquet that she made anyone but me; and also for tomorrow I am invited by her with the king.

• Esther 5:14

  And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them make a pole fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king that they should hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet glad.” And the matter seemed good to Haman, and he made the pole.

• Esther 6:14

  They were still speaking with him when the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had made.

• Esther 7:2

  And the king said to Esther also on the second day, at the banquet of wine, “What is your request, Esther the queen? It will be given to you. And what is your petition? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.”

• Esther 7:7

  And the king rose in his fury from the banquet of wine and went to the garden of the palace; and Haman stayed to petition Esther the queen for his life, for he saw that evil had been determined against him by the king.

• Esther 7:8

  And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.

• Esther 8:17

  And in every province, and in every city, in the place where the word of the king and his law reached, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land became Jews, for the dread of the Jews had fallen on them.

• Esther 9:17

  This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar; and they rested on the fourteenth of it, and made it a day of banqueting and gladness.

• Esther 9:18

  But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth of it and on the fourteenth of it, and rested on the fifteenth of it, and made it a day of banqueting and gladness.

• Esther 9:19

  Therefore the Jews of the open country, who live in the unwalled cities, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day of gladness and banqueting and a good day, and of sending portions each to his companion.

• Esther 9:22

  as the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of banqueting and gladness, and of sending portions each to his companion, and gifts to the needy.

• Job 1:4

  His sons would go and hold a feast in the house of each one on his day, and they would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

• Job 1:5

  And when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send and consecrate them; he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all, for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned and cursed Elohim in their hearts.” Thus Job would do all the days.

• Proverbs 15:15

  All the days of the afflicted are evil, but the good of heart has a continual feast.

• Ecclesiastes 7:2

  Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, because that is the end of every human being, and the living will lay it to his heart.

• Isaiah 5:12

  And there are lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts; but the deeds of YHWH they do not regard, and the work of his hands they do not see.

• Isaiah 25:6

  And YHWH Tsevaot will make for all the peoples on this mountain a feast of rich foods, a feast of aged wines, of rich foods full of marrow, of aged wines well refined.

• Jeremiah 16:8

  And a house of feasting do not enter to sit with them to eat and to drink.

• Jeremiah 51:39

  In their heat I will set out their feasts and make them drunk, so that they may exult, and sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares YHWH.

• Daniel 1:5

  And the king assigned them a daily portion each day from the delicacies of the king and from the wine he drank, and ordered that they be brought up three years, and at the end of them they would stand before the king.

And 6 more times.