שְׁתִי
drinking
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8358 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
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The Hebrew noun שתי centers on the idea of “drinking.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. Ecclesiastes dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ecclesiastes 10:17. Related forms include שתה, משתה and שתה. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8358 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Ecclesiastes 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Drunkenness 1×
- American Standard Version: Drunkenness 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Drunkenness 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Drunkenness 1×
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Senses in BDB
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- a drinking, drinking bout Ecc 10:17
Word origin
שְׁתִי n.[m.] drinking, drinking-bout;— Ec 10:17.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שתה (shâthâh) (H8354) — to drink.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׁנַיִם
- (b. h.) two. Ber. 8ᵃ ש׳ מקרא ואחד תרגום reading the Scriptural portion of the week twice, and the Targum once. Ib. שיעור ש׳ פתחים a distance of two gates. Zeb. V, 4, v. מַתָּנָה. Sabb. I, 1 ש׳ שהן ארבע two ways of transfer from place to place, which become four (by rabbinical addition). Ib. שְׁנֵיהֶם פטורין both of them are free. Snh. V, 3 בש׳ בחדש on the second day of the month. Ib. בש׳ שעות in the second hour of the day. Men. III, 3. Ib. 6; a. v. fr.—שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר, שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה twelve. Nidd. 69ᵇ. Ab. Zar. 3ᵇ; a. fr.
שְׁתֵּי
- , v. שְׁנַיִם
שתי
- (b. h.) [to be settled, satisfied,] to drink. Pes. 86ᵇ השׁוֹתֶה כוסו וכ׳ he who drinks his cupful at one draught is called greedy (גַּרְגְּרָן). Ber. 51ᵃ מקבלו … ושׁוֹתֵהוּ בשמאל he must receive it (the medicine, v. אִסְפַּרְגּוֹס) with his right hand, and drink it (take it to his lips) with his left hand. Ib.ᵇ השותה כפלים he who drinks an even number of cups (v. זוּג). Tosef. Sot. XV, 11; B. Bath. 60ᵇ כשחרב … ושלא לִשְׁתּוֹת יין when the Temple was destroyed, … there were many scrupulous persons (פרושים, determined) not to eat meat nor drink wine. Ib. נִשְׁתֶּה יין וכ׳ should we drink wine, of which libations were offered on the altar? Ib. מים לא נשתה וכ׳ then let us drink no water, because water libation has ceased. Keth. 8ᵇ רבים שָׁתוּ רבים יִשְׁתּוּ many have drank (the cup of mourning), many shall drink, v. מִשְׁתֶּה. Nidd. 24ᵇ כמה … שָׁתַת אמו וכ׳ how much unmixed wine the mother of this embryo must have drunk!; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁתוּי being under the influence of drink. Erub. 64ᵃ שְׁתוּי יין אל וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. only שָׁ׳) one feeling the wine must not pray, contrad. to שִׁכּוֹר, q. v. Lev. R. s. 12 שנכנסו שְׁתוּיֵי יין וכ׳ they (Nadab and Abihu) entered the Tabernacle while under the influence of wine; a. fr.—[Hif. from שָׁקָה q. v.]
שְׁתֵי
- Targ. Gen. IX, 21. Targ. I Sam. XXX, 12; a. fr.—Targ. Deut. XXXIII, 22 שַׁתְיָא (Y. II שתימין, corr. acc.).—Y. Shek. IV, 47ᶜ top כד הוה שָׁתֵי וכ׳ when he had drunk the four cups of wine on the Passover night &c.; Y. Sabb. VIII, beg. 11ᵃ; Y. Pes. X, 37ᶜ. Erub. 64ᵃ כל כמה דלא שָׁתֵינָא וכ׳ so long as I have not drunk a fourth (of a Log) of wine, my mind is not clear. Sabb. 152ᵃ עד … מכאן ואילך מִשְׁתֵּי מעלי up to forty years eating is more salutary, after that drinking is more salutary. R. Hash. 4ᵃ כלבתא בת משתי חמרא היא (ed. משתיא) does a bitch drink wine?; Yalk. Neh. 1069 מי שַׁתְיָא חמרא; a. fr.—With prefixed אִשְׁתֵּי ׃א, אִישְׁ׳. Targ. O. Ex. XXXIV, 28 ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. שתי); Y. אש׳. Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 14 אִישְׁתְּ (ed. Vien. אֵשְׁתְּ) imperative; a. fr.—Erub. 54ᵃ חטוף … ואִישְׁתֵּי make haste and eat, make haste and drink (enjoy life, v. חֲטַף). Lev. R. s. 12 עשרה … אִישְׁתֵּית thou drankest ten &c., v. קִיסְטָא I. Yeb. 65ᵇ אִישְׁתִּיָא סמא וכ׳ she drank a drug causing barrenness; a. fr.—R. Hash. 4ᵃ מִשְׁתָּיֵא, v. supra.
- to be drunk. Targ. O. Lev. XI, 34 דיִשְׁתְּתֵי (Y. דיִשְׁתֵּיתֵי; h. text יִשָּׁתֶה).
שתי ²
- [to settle,]
- 1. to lay the foundation of; v. שָׁתַת II.
- 2. to fix the warp, start the loom, v. שְׁתִי.
- 1. to found, establish, v. שָׁתַת II.
- 2. to weave. Midr. Sam. ch. XIX (ref. to נסכתי, Ps. II, 6) הִשְׁתֵּיתִיו I have woven him (established him, ref. to מסכת, Jud. XVI, 14); Yalk. Is. 338; Yalk. Ps. 620 השיתיו (corr. acc.). e.g. Psalms 2:6
- to be established, started. Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ, v. שְׁתִיָּה II; a. e.
- same. Tosef. Yoma III (II), 6 ed. Zuck. (Var. נשתת), v. שָׁתַת II
שְׁתֵי ²
- , to weave. Targ. Jud. XVI, 13 תִּשְׁתִּין (ed. Lag. a. oth. תִּשְׁתִּן, not תַּן …).
- , (Pe. with prefixed א) אִשְׁתֵּי, אִישְׁ׳ same,
- 1. to start the loom, weave. Targ. Ps. CXXXIX, 13 אַשְׁתְּיָת, ed. Wil. (ed. Lag. אִישְׁתְּיָית; h. text תסכני). Targ. Job X, 11.—Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᶜ top כד מַשְׁתָּיָיא וכ׳, v. קוּבְיָה. Y. Taan. IV, 64ᶜ דלא למִישְׁתָּיֵיא מן וכ׳ not to start a loom from the beginning of the month of Ab; Y. Pes. IV, 30ᵈ top; Yalk. Ps. 653 למשתי יינא (corr. acc.).
- 2. to found, establish. Targ. Ps. VIII, 3 ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. אַשְׁתֵּסְ׳, not אִ׳, v. שְׁתַאס; h. text יסד).
שְׁתִי
- preced.) warp; trnsf. longitudinal direction, v. עֵרֶב. Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top כחוט של ש׳ as thin as a thread of the warp. Mikv. VI, 9 כותל … שנסדק לש׳ a wall … which is cracked lengthwise; a. fr.—ש׳ וערב crosswise, v. עֵרֶב.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
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Septuagint verse parallels
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