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title: שִׁכָּרוֹן — drunkenness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שִׁכָּרוֹן (7943), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: drunkenness. BDB 1906: drunkenness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שִׁכָּרוֹן

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«שִׁכָּרוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drunkenness** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 7943 · **BDB:** שִׁכָּרוֹן

### Glosses

drunkenness (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drunkenness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7943/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

drunkenness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7943/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drunkenness;—שׁ׳ only fig.: Je 13:13; Ez 23:33 (Co Berthol Krae שִׁבָּרוֹן, not Toy), both of bewilderment and helplessness under calamity; from drinking blood 39:19.—Vid. LagBN 202, cf. 199.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שִׁכָּרוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7943/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 23:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.33/)

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שִׁכָּר֥וֹן וְיָג֖וֹן תִּמָּלֵ֑אִי כּ֚וֹס שַׁמָּ֣ה וּשְׁמָמָ֔ה כּ֖וֹס אֲחוֹתֵ֥ךְ שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* drunkenness and sorrow you.will.be.filled \[is\].a.cup of.horror and desolation the.cup your.sister your Samaria

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and appalment, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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[Ezekiel 39:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.39.19/)

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וַאֲכַלְתֶּם־חֵ֣לֶב לְשָׂבְעָ֔ה וּשְׁתִ֥יתֶם דָּ֖ם לְשִׁכָּר֑וֹן מִזִּבְחִ֖י אֲשֶׁר־זָבַ֥חְתִּי לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.eat fat to satiety and you.will.drink blood to drunkenness from sacrifice my which I.have.sacrificed for you

*JPS 1917:* And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of My feast which I have prepared for you.

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