shikor · drunk

What it means

shikor (שִׁכּוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “drunk”.

One who has drunk too much wine.

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. Someone who drank too much and staggers.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• drunk ×4
• drunkards ×3
• like a drunkard ×3
• drunkard ×2
• like a drunken ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1
• Joel×1

• 1 Samuel 1:13

  Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard. So Eli took her to be drunk.

• 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.

• 1 Kings 16:9

  His servant Zimri, commander of half the chariots, conspired against him. He was in Tirzah, drinking and drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah;

• 1 Kings 20:16

  They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking and drunk in the booths, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings helping him.

• Job 12:25

  They grope in darkness and without light, and he makes them wander like a drunkard.

• Psalms 107:27

  They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

• Proverbs 26:9

  A thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of the senseless.

• Isaiah 19:14

  YHWH has mixed within it a spirit of dizziness, and they have led astray Egypt in all its work, as a drunkard goes astray in his vomit.

• Isaiah 24:20

  Staggering, the earth staggers like a drunkard, and it sways like a hut; and its transgression lies heavy upon it, and it will fall and will not rise again.

• Isaiah 28:1

  Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower, the adornment of its beauty, which is on the head of the valley of fatness of those struck down by wine!

• Isaiah 28:3

  Under feet will be trampled the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim.

• Jeremiah 23:9

  Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken within me; all my bones tremble; I have become like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of YHWH and because of his holy words.

• Joel 1:5

  Wake up, drunkards, and weep; and wail, all who drink wine, over the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.