סָבָא
sava · drink heavily, drunkard
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5433 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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sava (סָבָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drink heavily, drunkard”.
To drink to excess, to get drunk; "a drunkard".
How to say it
sa·va
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
- Take wine without limit; one always intoxicated.
- People of Sheba brought from the desert.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- Sabeans ×1
- among drinkers ×1
- drinker ×1
- drunkards ×1
- we will drink ourselves drunk on ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Proverbs 23:20
Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttons of meat for themselves;
- Proverbs 23:21
for the drinker and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.
- 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.”
- Ezekiel 23:42
And the sound of a carefree crowd was in her, and with men from the multitude of humankind Sabeans were brought from the wilderness; and they put bracelets on their hands and a crown of beauty on their heads.
- Nahum 1:10
For they are like tangled thorns and like drunkards with their drink; they will be consumed like stubble fully dry.