noun · feminine
methas
Strong’sG3178
drunkenness
stem meth-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μέθη, -ης, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for שֵׁכָר and cognate forms;]
SYN.: v.s. κῶμος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3178 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmeth'-ay
an intoxicant, i.e. (by implication) intoxication
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamesdrunkenness.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(for μεθύω: μέθη, compare πληθύω: πλήθᾱ) strong drink, καλῶς ἔχειν μέθης to be pretty well drunk, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. εὐώδης παλαιός fragrant old wine, Refs 5th c.BC+
II drunkenness, μ. αἰώνιος Refs 5th c.BC+; μέθῃ χρῆσθαιRefs 4th c.BC+: plural, carousals, NT+5th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, ὑπὸ μέθης τοῦ φόβου ναυτιᾷ Refs 5th c.BC+
III Μέθη personified, in Art, Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | methas | methais1×μέθαι |
| object accusative | methan | methain |
| direct address vocative | methar | methair |
| of, belonging to genitive | methau | methaiu |
| to, for dative | metha1×μέθῃ | methai1×μέθαις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
metha is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
metha“drunkenness”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 21:34… vu tais kardiais en kraipala kai metha kai merimnai biōtikai, kai epistēateia epi …… will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life — and …
methais“drunkenness”subjectnominative plural1×
Galatians 5:21fthonois, methais, kōmois, kai teim homoieim houtei, heim …and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn …
methai“drunkenness”to, fordative plural1×
Romans 13:13… hēmera euschēmonōs peripataneia, mē kōmoi kai methai, mē koitai kai aselgeiai, mē erida …… the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery …