shata · drink

What it means

shata (שָׁתָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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. To take water or wine; also, figuratively, to receive a punishment as a cup one drinks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Drink. BDB defines it as to drink, literally or figuratively.

• To drink water Genesis 24:14Exodus 17:6
• To drink wine Genesis 9:21
• Eating and drinking before God Exodus 24:11
• Neither eating nor drinking: fasting Exodus 34:28
• “Eat and drink” Isaiah 22:13Psalms 110:7

How we translate it

“Drink” 149 times, “drank” 32, “drinking” 16, “drunk” 9. It is always translated “drink”. “Give to drink”, “water” (animals) is another Hebrew verb (שָׁקָה).

How it is translated

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

• drink ×149
• drank ×32
• drinking ×16
• drunk ×9
• drinks ×8
• will certainly ×2
• You shall surely ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×17
• Exodus×12
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×10
• Deuteronomy×9
• Judges×10
• Ruth×3
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×21
• 2 Kings×8
• 1 Chronicles×5
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×3
• Job×7
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×8
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×17
• Jeremiah×22
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×16
• Daniel×1
• Joel×2
• Amos×6
• Obadiah×3
• Jonah×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 9:21

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

• Genesis 24:14

  Let it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your jar so that I may drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels,’ she is the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown loyal love to my lord.”

• Genesis 24:18

  She said, “Drink, my lord.” And she quickly lowered her jar onto her hand and gave him a drink.

• Genesis 24:19

  When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels until they have finished drinking.”

• Genesis 24:22

  When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring of half a shekel in weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels of gold in weight,

• Genesis 24:44

  and who says to me, “Drink, you too, and I will also draw water for your camels,” she is the woman whom YHWH has appointed for the son of my lord.’

• Genesis 24:46

  She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will also water your camels.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels too.

• Genesis 24:54

  He and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they rose in the morning, he said, “Send me away to my lord.”

• Genesis 25:34

  Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew, and he ate and drank, rose, and went away. So Esau despised the birthright.

• Genesis 26:30

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

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and let me eat of the game of my son, so that I may bless you.” So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.

• 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.

• Genesis 44:5

  Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and by which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in what you have done.’”

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

• Exodus 7:24

  All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink from the water of the Nile.

• Exodus 15:23

  They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water of Marah, because it was bitter; that is why it was named Marah.

• Exodus 15:24

  The people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

• Exodus 17:1

  All the community of the sons of Israel set out from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the command of YHWH, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 17:2

  The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test YHWH?”

• Exodus 17:6

  Look, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

• Exodus 24:11

  But against the leaders of the sons of Israel he did not stretch out his hand; they beheld Elohim, and they ate and drank.

• Exodus 32:6

  And they rose early on the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to revel.

• Exodus 34:28

  And he was there with YHWH forty days and forty nights; bread he did not eat, and water he did not drink. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words.

• 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,

• Leviticus 11:34

  Any food that may be eaten, on which water comes, will be unclean; and any drink that may be drunk from any such vessel will be unclean.

• 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 6:20

  And the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before YHWH; it is holy for the priest, together with the breast of the wave offering and with the thigh of the contribution. And afterward the Nazirite may drink wine.

• Numbers 20:5

  And why have you brought us up from Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

• Numbers 20:11

  And Moses raised his hand and struck the crag with his staff twice, and much water came out, and the community and their livestock drank.

• Numbers 20:17

  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the way of the king; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 20:19

  And the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will pay its price. Only it is nothing: let me pass through on foot.”

• Numbers 21:22

  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or into vineyard; we will not drink water from a well; we will go by the way of the king until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 23:24

  Look, a people rises like a lioness, and like a lion it lifts itself up; it does not lie down until it devours the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.”

• Numbers 33:14

  They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water there for the people to drink.

• Deuteronomy 2:6

  Food you shall buy from them for silver, and eat; and also water you shall acquire from them for silver, and drink.’

• Deuteronomy 2:28

  Food for silver you will sell me, and I will eat; and water for silver you will give me, and I will drink. Only let me pass through on foot,

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I went up the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that YHWH made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink.

• Deuteronomy 9:18

  Then I lay prostrate before YHWH, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; bread I did not eat, and water I did not drink, because of all your sin that you had sinned by doing what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger.

And 177 more times.