Strong's Lexicon
G3178 — μέθη
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3178 |
|---|---|
| Word: | μέθη |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | apparently a primary word |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 3 |
| Transliteration: | methe |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | meth'-ay |
| Meaning: | 1. an intoxicant 2. (by implication) intoxication |
| KJV Renderings: | drunkenness |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μέθη, μέθης, ἡ (akin to μέθυ, wine; perhaps any intoxicating drink, Latintemetum; cf. German Meth (mead)), intoxication; drunkenness: Luk 21:34; plural, Rom 13:13; Gal 5:21. (Hebrew ùÅÑëÈø, intoxicating drink, Pro 20:1; Isa 28:7; and ùÄÑëÈÌøåï, intoxication, Eze 23:32; Eze 39:19; (Antiphon), Xenophon, Plato, others) (Cf. Trench, § lxi.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
μέθη (drunkenness)
Luke 21:34
- KJV: And take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and that day come upon you unawares
- GK: προσέχετε δε εαυτοίς μήποτε βαρυνθώσιν υμών αι καρδίαι εν κραιπάλη και μέθη και μερίμναις βιωτικαίς και αιφνίδιος εφ΄ υμάς επιστή η ημέρα εκείνη
Romans 13:13
- KJV: Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying
- GK: ως εν ημέρα ευσχημόνως περιπατήσωμεν μη κώμοις και μέθαις μη κοίταις και ασελγείαις μη έριδι και ζήλω
Galatians 5:21
- KJV: Envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God
- GK: φθόνοι φόνοι μέθαι κώμοι και τα όμοια τούτοις α προλέγω υμίν καθώς και προείπον ότι οι τα τοιαύτα πράσσοντες βασιλείαν θεού ου κληρονομήσουσιν
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