Methysos means “drunkard” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3183 — yachtseel (“Jachtseel”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3183 μέθυσος (methusos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. methusos (meth'-oo-sos) n. 1. tipsy 2. (as noun) a sot It has 7 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include drunkard and drunkards. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
methusos (meth'-oo-sos) n. 1. tipsy 2. (as noun) a sot [from G3184] KJV: drunkard Root(s): G3184
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3183. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
drunkard
Usage: μέθυσος, -α, -ον (also -ος, -ον; prop., only of women, but in late writers also = μεθυστικός, of men), [in LXX: Pro.23:21 (סָבָא) Pro.26:9 (שִׁכּוֹר), Sir.19:1 26:8, 4Ma.2:7 * ;] drunken: 1Co.5:11 6:10.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render methusos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3183 (μέθυσος) appears 5 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
For every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; And every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
3 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?
A laboring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: And he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, And she will not cover her own shame.
First 7 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3183.
For every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; And every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Since in what way is a solitary eater, and a glutton, and a drunkard reclaimed, unless it be clear that reasoning is lord of the passions?
A laboring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich: And he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little.
A drunken woman and a gadder abroad causeth great anger, And she will not cover her own shame.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3183, grouped by book.
Methysos (Strong's G3183) is a Greek word most simply glossed "drunkard". methusos (meth'-oo-sos) n. 1. tipsy 2. (as noun) a sot
This page currently indexes 7 linked usages for Strong's G3183 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3183 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as drunkard and drunkards. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 3 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3183, with linked reader references where each row is available.