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title: שְׁתָה — drink · The Biblical Aramaic dictionary
description: שְׁתָה (lemma:שְׁתָה), a word of Biblical Aramaic, used 5 times: drink. BDB 1906: vb. drink. With 2 verses in Aramaic, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁתָה

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«שְׁתָה» in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary: **drink** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** lemma:שְׁתָה · **BDB:** שְׁתָה

### Glosses

they.drank (2); \[are\].drinking (1); \[he.was\].drinking (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. drink [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b8_5d4/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. drink (𝔗 שְׁתָא, אִשְׁתִּי, Syriac ܐܶܫܬܻܝ; v. BH ׃שָׁתָה);— Pf. 3 mpl. אִשְׁתִּיו (K§ 11, 4, α)) Dn 5:3, 4; Impf. 3 mpl. יִשְׁתּוֹן v 2; Pt. act. שָׁתֵה v 1, pl. שָׁתַ֫יִן v 23;—drink, acc. wine Dn 5:1, 4, + ב of vessel v 23 and (acc. om.) v 2, 3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁתָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b0_5c1_5ea_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Daniel 5:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.1/)

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בֵּלְשַׁאצַּ֣ר מַלְכָּ֗א עֲבַד֙ לְחֶ֣ם רַ֔ב לְרַבְרְבָנ֖וֹהִי אֲלַ֑ף וְלָקֳבֵ֥ל אַלְפָּ֖א חַמְרָ֥א שָׁתֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* Belshazzar the king he.made a.feast great for nobles his a.thousand and (to) before the thousand (the) wine \[he.was\].drinking

*JPS 1917:* Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

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[Daniel 5:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.5.4/)

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אִשְׁתִּ֖יו חַמְרָ֑א וְ֠שַׁבַּחוּ לֵֽאלָהֵ֞י דַּהֲבָ֧א וְכַסְפָּ֛א נְחָשָׁ֥א פַרְזְלָ֖א אָעָ֥א וְאַבְנָֽא׃

*Word for word:* they.drank the wine and they.praised (et).the gods of.(the) gold and (the) silver (the) bronze (the) iron (the) wood and (the) stone

*JPS 1917:* They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

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