מִשְׁתֶּה
mishteh · mish-teh'
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8354 (שָׁתָה);
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
- drink, by implication, drinking (the act)
- also, (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › the mark, the covenant sign › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy of the mark, the covenant sign that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִשְׁתֶּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
46 occurrences · 46 OT · 0 NT · 23 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a feast9 · 20%
- of feasting5 · 11%
- feast4 · 9%
- unto the banquet4 · 9%
- them a feast2 · 4%
- to the banquet2 · 4%
- at the banquet2 · 4%
- which he drank2 · 4%
- there a feast1 · 2%
- of the feast1 · 2%
- while their feast1 · 2%
- and, behold, he held a feast1 · 2%
- like the feast1 · 2%
- that were with him a feast1 · 2%
- and drink1 · 2%
- from the banquet1 · 2%
- of the banquet1 · 2%
- and feasting1 · 2%
- and feasted1 · 2%
- of their feasting1 · 2%
- are in their feasts1 · 2%
- their feasts1 · 2%
- and your drink1 · 2%
- that they should drink1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.