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title: שְׁתִיָּה — drinking · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁתִיָּה (8360), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: drinking. BDB 1906: n.f. drinking. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁתִיָּה

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«שְׁתִיָּה» 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:** 8360 · **BDB:** שְׁתִיָּה

### Glosses

drinking (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8360/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. drinking [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8360/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. drinking (mode or amount) Est 1:8.

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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 (4 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 «שְׁתִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8360/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.8/)

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וְהַשְּׁתִיָּ֥ה כַדָּ֖ת אֵ֣ין אֹנֵ֑ס כִּי־כֵ֣ן ׀ יִסַּ֣ד הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ עַ֚ל כָּל־רַ֣ב בֵּית֔וֹ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת כִּרְצ֥וֹן אִישׁ־וָאִֽישׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the drinking \[was\].according to the.law there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].compelled (dm) thus he.had.appointed the king on every (the).chief his.house his to do according to.\[the\].pleasure of.man and man

*JPS 1917:* And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel; for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

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