noun · masculine
methusos
Strong’sG3183
a drunkard
stem methus-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
μέθυσος, -α, -ον
(also -ος, -ον; prop., only of women, but in late writers also = μεθυστικός, of men), [in LXX: Pr 23:21 (סבא) 26:9 (שִׁכּוֹר), Si 19:1 26:8, IV Mac 2:7*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3183 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmeth'-oo-sos
tipsy, i.e. (as noun) a sot
Fromfrom G3184;
King Jamesdrunkard.
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
drunk with wine, properly only feminine, μέθυσος Ἀμαζών Refs 5th c.BC+
2 later also, of men, μεθύσους τοὺς ἐμπόρους ποιεῖ NT+4th c.BC+; drunken, intemperate, Refs 1st 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 | methusos1×μέθυσος | methusois1×μέθυσοι |
| object accusative | methuson | methusoin |
| direct address vocative | methusor | methusoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | methusou | methusoiu |
| to, for dative | methuso | methusoi |
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
methuso 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
methusos“drunkard”subjectnominative singular1×
1 Corinthians 5:11… pleonektos ē eidōlolatros ē loidoros ē methusos ē harpagos, to toiouto mēde sunesthiarō.… idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a …
methusois“drunkards”subjectnominative plural1×
1 Corinthians 6:10oute kleptois oute pleonektois, ouk methusois, ouk loidorois, ouk harpagois basileian theou …nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will …