sheta · drink

What it means

sheta (שְׁתָה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “drink”.

To drink (Aramaic).

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 a drink, above all wine at a banquet.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• drank ×2
• have been drinking ×1
• he was drinking ×1
• might drink ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Daniel 5:1

  King Belshazzar made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and before the thousand he was drinking wine.

• Daniel 5:2

  Belshazzar, at the taste of the wine, said to bring the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

• Daniel 5:3

  Then they brought the vessels of gold that had been taken out of the temple of the house of Elah that was in Jerusalem; and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.

• Daniel 5:4

  They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone.

• Daniel 5:23

  But against the Lord of the heavens you have lifted yourself up; and the vessels of his house they brought before you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines have been drinking wine from them; and the gods of silver and of gold, of bronze, of iron, of wood and of stone, which do not see or hear or know, you have praised; but the Elah in whose hand is your breath and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.