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title: שְׁתִי — drinking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁתִי (8358), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: drinking. BDB 1906: drinking, drinking-bout. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁתִי

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«שְׁתִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drinking** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 8358 · **BDB:** שְׁתִי

### Glosses

drinking (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

drinking, drinking-bout [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] drinking, drinking-bout;—Ec 10:17.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁתִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8358/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ecclesiastes 10:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.10.17/)

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אַשְׁרֵ֣יךְ אֶ֔רֶץ שֶׁמַּלְכֵּ֖ךְ בֶּן־חוֹרִ֑ים וְשָׂרַ֙יִךְ֙ בָּעֵ֣ת יֹאכֵ֔לוּ בִּגְבוּרָ֖ה וְלֹ֥א בַשְּׁתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* how blessed.\[are\].you O.land which king your \[is\].a.son of.nobles and princes your at the.appropriate time they.eat for strength and not for (the) drinking

*JPS 1917:* Happy art thou, O land, when thy king is a free man, and thy princes eat in due season, in strength, and not in drunkenness!

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