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πινω

to drink

‘to drink’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G4095 Strong's Greek
pínō Transliteration
/pee'-no/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 73 appearances

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About this entry

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The Greek verb πινω centers on the idea of “to drink.” Debuting at Matthew 6:31, it then recurs through the corpus. Spanning 64 verses in 9 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 16 of 64 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
drink
Modern gloss
to drink
Strong's 1890 agrees
Strong's 1890 and current Thayer scholarship align on this entry's primary sense — a good signal that the gloss above is unambiguous and stable. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G4095 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 →

64
distinct verses
The word appears in 64 distinct verses.
9 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 6:31
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 6:31.
Revelation 18:3
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Revelation 18:3.
#233
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 233 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 64 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 44 · 69%
  • Acts 3 · 5%
  • Pauline Epistles 13 · 20%
  • General Epistles 1 · 2%
  • Revelation 3 · 5%

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 64 distinct verses.

  • Gospels 44 verses · 69%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 19 verses · 30%
  • Johannine 14 verses · 22%
  • Pauline corpus 13 verses · 20%
  • Revelation 3 verses · 5%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 2%

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: Drink 37×, Drinketh 7×, Drinking 6×
  • American Standard Version: Drink 38×, Drinketh 6×, Drinking 6×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Drink 33×, Drinking 9×, Drinks 8×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Drink 36×, Drinking 10×, Drank 5×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G4095 across 80 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 37×
  • “Drinketh” 7×
  • “Drinking” 6×
  • “Drink of” 3×
  • “I drink” 3×
  • “They drank” 3×
  • “Ye shall drink” 3×
  • “Drank” 2×
  • “I will” 2×
  • “Shall drink” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G4095 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 38×
  • “Drinketh” 6×
  • “Drinking” 6×
  • “They drank” 3×
  • “I drink” 2×
  • “Ye shall drink” 2×

Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G4095 across 73 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 33×
  • “Drinking” 9×
  • “Drinks” 8×
  • “Drank” 3×
  • “I drink” 3×
  • “I will not drink” 2×
  • “Will drink” 2×

Plus 13 renderings that appear 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 G4095 across 83 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Drink” 36×
  • “Drinking” 10×
  • “Drank” 5×
  • “Drinks” 4×
  • “I drink” 3×
  • “I will” 3×
  • “It” 2×
  • “They” 2×
  • “They were drinking” 2×
  • “You might drink” 2×
  • “You will drink” 2×

Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


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.

  1. to drink
  2. figuratively, to receive into the soul what serves to refresh strengthen, nourish it unto life eternal

Word origin

Origin: "a prolonged form of pio pee'-o; which (together with another form poo po'-o, occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses"

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 08:15,8

the first is a prolonged form of the second which (together with the third form) occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses; to imbibe (literally or figuratively): - drink.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 29 distinct written forms G4095 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
πίνων pínōn Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Matthew 11:18 8
πεῖν peîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 27:34 8
πίω píō Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Singular Matthew 26:29 6
πιεῖν pieîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Matthew 20:22 5
πίνω pínō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular Mark 10:38 4
πίνειν pínein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Matthew 20:22 4
πίνητε pínēte Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Luke 22:30 3
ἔπινον épinon Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 17:27 3
πίεσθε píesthe Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 20:23 2
πίητε píēte Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 2nd person, Plural Luke 12:29 2
πίνει pínei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Mark 2:16 2
πίνετε pínete Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 5:30 2
πίνοντες pínontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Matthew 24:38 2
πίνῃ pínē Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 24:49 2
πίωμεν píōmen Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Matthew 6:31 2
πίῃ píē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Luke 1:15 2
πινέτω pinétō Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 3rd person, Singular John 7:37 2
ἔπιεν épien Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular John 4:12 2
ἔπιον épion Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Mark 14:23 2
πέπωκαν pépōkan Verb, Perfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Revelation 18:3 1
πίε píe Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 12:19 1
πίεσαι píesai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Luke 17:8 1
πίεται píetai Verb, Future, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Revelation 14:10 1
πίετε píete Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 26:27 1
πίνουσιν pínousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 5:33 1
πίωσιν píōsin Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Mark 16:18 1
πιοῦσα pioûsa Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Feminine Hebrews 6:7 1
πιὼν piṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 5:39 1
ἐπίομεν epíomen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Luke 13:26 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4095, 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.

Derived from this word

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word πινω appears 239 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 208 verses in 33 books.

239
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
208
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
33 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 33 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4095) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 208. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4095) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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