noun · neuter
sikera
Strong’sG4608
intoxicating drink
stem siker-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.
† σίκερα, τό indecl.
(Aram. שִׁכְרָא), [in LXX for שֵׁכָר (also rendered μέθυσμα, Jg 13:4, Mi 2:11), Le 10:9, al.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4608 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsik'-er-ah
an intoxicant, i.e. intensely fermented liquor
Fromof Hebrew origin ();
King Jamesstrong drink.
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
fermented liquor, strong drink, LXX+NT+2nd c.AD+. (Cf. Hebrew šēkār.)
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 or object direct | sikera | sikera |
| of, belonging to genitive | sikera | sikera |
| to, for dative | sikera | sikera |
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
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
sikera1×
Luke 1:15… enōpion tou kuriou, kai oinon kai sikera ouk mē pinateia, kai pneumeu hagieu …… He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with …