shachar · drink freely, be drunk

What it means

shachar (שָׁכַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drink freely, be drunk”.

Drink freely, drink one's fill; become 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 drink until senseless.
2. To make another drunk.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• drunk ×18
• drunkenness ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×5
• Lamentations×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1

• Genesis 9:21

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

• Genesis 43:34

  Portions were carried to them from before him, and Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than the portions of all of them. They drank and became drunk with him.

• Deuteronomy 32:42

  I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword will devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.’

• 1 Samuel 1:14

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

• 2 Samuel 11:13

  David invited him, and he ate before him and drank, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but to his house he did not go down.

• Song of Songs 5:1

  I have come to my garden, my sister, bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my balsam; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, companions; drink, and be drunk with love!

• 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 49:26

  And I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and as with sweet wine with their blood they will be drunk; and all flesh will know that I, YHWH, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

• Isaiah 51:21

  Therefore hear now this, afflicted one and drunk, but not with wine:

• Isaiah 63:6

  And I trod down peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my fury, and I brought down to the earth their juice.”

• Jeremiah 25:27

  “And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Drink, and get drunk, and vomit, and fall and do not rise, because of the sword that I am sending among you.’

• Jeremiah 48:26

  Make him drunk, for against YHWH he has made himself great; and Moab will splash in his vomit, and he too will become a laughingstock.

• Jeremiah 51:7

  A cup of gold was Babylon in the hand of YHWH, making drunk all the earth; of her wine the nations drank; therefore the nations go mad.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 51:57

  And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her prefects and her mighty men, and they will sleep an eternal sleep and not wake up, declares the King, YHWH Tsevaot is his name.

• Lamentations 4:21

  Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; to you also the cup will pass; you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.

• Nahum 3:11

  You too will be drunk; you will be hidden; you too will seek a stronghold from the enemy.

• Habakkuk 2:15

  Woe to the one who gives his neighbor drink, mixing in your fury, and even making him drunk, in order to look on their nakedness!

• Haggai 1:6

  You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, and there is no satisfaction; you drink, and there is no drunkenness; you clothe yourselves, and there is no warmth for anyone; and the one who earns wages earns wages for a bag with holes.