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Strong's #7937 - שָׁכַר
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1) to be or become drunk or drunken, be intoxicated
1a) (Qal) to become drunken
1b) (Piel) to make drunken, cause to be drunk
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be drunk
1d) (Hithpael) to make oneself drunk
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2839) rks (סהכר ShKR) AC: Drunk CO: Liquor AB: Drunkenness
V) rks (סהכר ShKR) - Drunk: To be filled with intoxicating drink. KJV (19): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Piel) drunk, filled, abundantly, merry - Strongs: H7937 (שָׁכַר)
Nm) rks (סהכר ShKR) - Liquor: An intoxicating drink. KJV (23): drink, wine - Strongs: H7941 (שֵׁכָר)
ecm) rfkis (סהיכור ShYKWR) - Drunkard: One who is filled with intoxicating drink. KJV (13): drunken, drunkard, drunk - Strongs: H7910 (שִׁכֹּר)
ejm) nfrkis (סהיכרונ ShYKRWN) - Drunkenness: KJV (3): drunkenness, drunken - Strongs: H7943 (שִׁכָּרוֹן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
be drunken, also be full, 
fill; Assyrian šikaru; = שֵׁכָר, šikaru, drunken, perhaps also verb šakâru; Ethiopic 
: Aramaic שִׁכְרָא, 
= שְׁכָר, especially date-wine (Löw p. 125), compare 
be drunken, usually (derived species) defile, deform, etc.; from שֵׁכָר, Egyptian t-av-k-±ra WMM As.u.Eur.102, Greek σίκερα, Lewy Fremdw. 81); — Qal Perfect 3 plural שָֽׁכְרוּ Isaiah 29:9; Imperfect 3 masculine singular וַיִּשְׁכָּ֑ר Genesis 9:21,3masculine plural יִשְׁכָּר֑וּן Isaiah 49:26, etc.; Imperative masculine plural שִׁכְרוּ Jeremiah 25:27; Song of Solomon 5:1; Infinitive construct לְשָׁכְרָה Haggai 1:6; Passive participle שְׁכֻרַת Isaiah 51:21 (Ges§ 130b Lag BN 60); — become drunken Genesis 9:21 (J), of social drinking Genesis 43:34 (J), Song of Solomon 5:1, token of plenty Haggai 1:6; figurative of nations staggering helplessly under calamity Jeremiah 25:27; Jeremiah 51:21(וְלֹא מִיָּ֑יִן), of Nahum 3:11; of infatuation Isaiah 29:9 (וְלֹא יַיִן), of disgrace Lamentations 4:21, self-destruction, ׳כֶּעָסִיס דָּמָם יִשׁ Isaiah 49:26.
Pi`el make drunken: Imperfect 3 masculine singular suffix וַיְשַׁכְּרֵהוּ 2 Samuel 11:13, literal; figurative 1 singular (suffix of people) וַאֲשַׁכְּרֵם (read ׳וָ) Isaiah 63:6 (subject ׳י) I made them drunk in my wrath (but MSS Ges Hi Ew Che Kit Marti and others וָאֲשַׁבְּרֵם I brake them in pieces); Participle feminine singular, of Babylonian, מְשַׁכֶּרֶת בָּלהָֿרֶץ Jeremiah 51:7; compare Infinitive abs. שַׁכֵּר Habakkuk 2:15 (i. e. terrorizing nations; read probably ׳הַשְׁקֵה וְאַף שׁ We Now).
Hiph`il id.: Perfect 1 singular וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּ֫י Jeremiah 51:27 (subject ׳י) i.e. make princes helpless, וְהִשְׁכַּרְתִּים Jeremiah 51:39; Imperative masculine plural suffix הַשְׁכִּירֻהוּ object Moab, i.e. make helpless and disgraced Jeremiah 48:26; Imperfect 1 singular אַשְׁכִּיר חְצַּי מִדָּם Deuteronomy 32:42. — Ruben JQ xi (1889), 446 proposes מַשְׁכִּירוֺת Hosea 7:5 for משׁך ידו את.
Hithpa`el Imperfect 2 feminine singular תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִין 1 Samuel 1:14 how long wilt thou make thyself drunken [a drunken spectacle] ?
שָׁכַר fut. יִשְׁכַּר; Arab. سَكِرَ
(1) to drink to the full (i.q. רָוָה), Hagg. 1:6 to drink to hilarity, Song of Solomon 5:1; Genesis 43:34. It is very often
(2) to make oneself drunken, Genesis 9:21 followed by an acc. of the drink, Isaiah 29:9, 49:26 followed by מִן Isaiah 51:21. Metaph. in the prophets the wicked are said to be drunken, since they rush, by a kind of madness, upon their own destruction, Isaiah 29:9, 51:21 Lamentations 4:21; Nahum 3:11. Compare כּוֹם, תַּרְעֵלָה. Part. pass. שְׁכוּרָה drunken, Isaiah 51:21.
Piel, to make drunken, 2 Samuel 11:13 metaph. (see Kal), Jeremiah 51:7; Isaiah 63:6.
Hiphil, id., to make drunken
(a) arrows with blood, Deuteronomy 32:42.
(b) nations (see Kal and Piel), Jeremiah 51:57.
Hithpael, to act as one drunk, 1 Samuel 1:14.
Derivatives, שֵׁכָר-שִׁכְרוֹן, שִׁכּוֹר.
II. שָׁכַר (kindred to שָׂכַר) to hire, to reward, see אֶשְׁכָּר.
