μεθύσκω
to intoxicate
‘to intoxicate’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Present-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G3182 appears in the Present tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
μεθυσκω (methýskō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to intoxicate.” It is rare — just 4 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 12:45. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3182 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 25%
- Ephesians 1 verse 25%
- 1 Thessalonians 1 verse 25%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 50%
- Gospels 1 verse · 25%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- Johannine 1 verse · 25%
- Revelation 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be 1×, Be drunken 1×, Drunk 1×
- American Standard Version: Are drunken 1×, Be 1×, Be drunken 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Get drunk 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Become drunk 1×, Do 1×, Get drunk 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3182 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to intoxicate, make drunk
- to get drunk, become intoxicated
Word origin
Derived from μεθυω (methýō) (G3184) — to be drunk.
A prolonged (transitive) form of G3184 ; to intoxicate : - be drunk (-en).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3182 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μεθυσκόμενοι methyskómenoi | Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Thessalonians 5:7 | 1 |
| μεθύσκεσθαι methýskesthai | Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive | Luke 12:45 | 1 |
| μεθύσκεσθε methýskesthe | Verb, Present, Passive, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Ephesians 5:18 | 1 |
| ἐμεθύσθησαν emethýsthēsan | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Revelation 17:2 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3182, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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