μεθύσκω
methuskō
to get drunk
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek word μεθύσκω (methuskō) is a verb that means "to get drunk." Its primary definition is centered around the idea of intoxication, likely due to excessive consumption of wine or other substances. This word appears four times in the Bible, indicating its significance in ancient Greek culture. The frequency of its occurrence suggests that intoxication was a common experience or concern in the time period. The meaning of μεθύσκω is straightforward and lacks any secondary or metaphorical connotations. Its primary function is to describe a physical state of being, rather than an emotional or spiritual one.
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Occurrences in Scripture
4 total occurrences across the text
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Ephesians 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
1 Thessalonians 5:7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
Revelation 17:2with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality. Those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”