Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
strong drink
Usage: strong drink, intoxicating drink, fermented or intoxicating liquor
Shekar means “strong drink” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7941 שֵׁכָר (shekar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. shekar (shay-kawr') n-m. 1. an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor [from H7937] It has 20 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include strong, liquor, and drunkards. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
shekar (shay-kawr') n-m. 1. an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor [from H7937] KJV: strong drink, + drunkard, strong wine. Root(s): H7937
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strong drink
Usage: strong drink, intoxicating drink, fermented or intoxicating liquor
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render shekar, 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 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
20 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7941.
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7941, grouped by book.
Shekar (Strong's H7941) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "strong drink". shekar (shay-kawr') n-m. 1. an intoxicant, i.e. intensely alcoholic liquor [from H7937]
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's H7941 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7941 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as strong, liquor, and drunkards. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.