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Strong's #4608 - σίκερα
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- strong drink, an intoxicating beverage, different from wine; it was a artificial product, made of a mixture of sweet ingredients, whether derived from grain and vegetables, or from the juice of fruits (dates), or a decoction of honey
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σίκερα, τό,
fermented liquor, strong drink, LXX Leviticus 10:9, Is. 24.9, Ev.Luke 1:15, Gal. 19.693. (Cf. Hebr. ðçkâr. )
σίκερα, τό (Hebrew שֵׁכָר (rather, according to Kautzsch (Gram., p. 11) for שִׁכְרָא (properly, σικρα) the stative emphatic of שְׁכַר (literally, 'intoxicating' drink))), indeclinable (Winers Grammar, 68 (66); Buttmann, 24 (21)) (yet Eusebius, praep. evang. 6, 10, 8 has a genitive σικερος (and Sophocles in his Lex. quotes from Cyrill. Alex. 1, 1041 d. (edited by Migne) a genitive σικερατος), strong drink, an intoxicating beverage, different from wine (except in Numbers 28:7 (cf. Isaiah 28:7)); it was a factitious product, made of a mixture of sweet ingredients, whether derived from grain and vegetables, or from the juice of fruits (dates), or a decoction of honey: Luke 1:15 (Leviticus 10:9; Numbers 6:3; Deuteronomy 14:25 (
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† σίκερα , τό ,
indecl.
(Aram. שִׁכְרָא ),
[in LXX for H7941 (also rendered μέθυσμα , Judges 13:4, Micah 2:11), Leviticus 10:9, al.;]
fermented liquor, strong drink: Luke 1:15.†
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