Lexical Summary mishteh: a feast, drink Original Word: מִשְׁתֶּהTransliteration: mishteh Phonetic Spelling: (mish-teh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a feast, drink Meaning: drink, drinking, a banquet, feast Strong's Concordance banquet, drank, drink, feasted, From shathah; drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast -- banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing). see HEBREW shathah Brown-Driver-Briggs H4960. mishteh מִשְׁתֶּה45 noun masculineGenesis 21:8 1 feast; 2 drink; — absolute ׳מ Genesis 19:3 +; construct מִשְׁתֵּה 1 Samuel 25:36 +; suffix מִשְׁתָּיו Daniel 1:5 + (Ges§§ 93 ss), etc.; — 1 feast, banquet (occasion for drinking, drinking-bout), 1 Samuel 25:36 (twice in verse); Isaiah 5:12; Jeremiah 51:39 (figurative), Job 1:5; Esther 2:18; 5:14; 8:17; 9:19; lasting seven days Judges 14:12, 17 (wedding-feast, compare Genesis 29:27, and see BenzArchaeology 143; Ency. Bib. 2949 NowArchaeology i. 163); ׳מ עָשָׂה give or make a feast (sometimes + ל person) 19:3; 26:30 (both J), 21:8; 40:20 (both E), Judges 14:10; 2 Samuel 3:20; 1 Kings 3:15; Esther 1:3 8t. Esther; Job 1:4 + 2 Samuel 13:27 (twice in verse) ᵐ5 Th We Dr and modern; הַיַּיִן מִשְׁתֵּה Esther 5:6; 7:2, 7, מִשְׁתֶּה בֵּית Jeremiah 16:8; Ecclesiastes 7:2, הַיַּיִן מִשְׁתֵּה בֵּית Esther 7:8; וְשִׂמְחָה מ ׳יוֺם 9:17-18, compare 9:22; of ׳יs banquet for all peoples Isaiah 25:6 (figurative of Messianic blessings); figurative also in מ ׳טוֺבלֵֿב תָּמִיד Proverbs 15:15. 2 drink (late): וּמ ׳מַאֲכָל וָשֶׁמֶן Ezra 3:7; suffix מִשְׁתָּיו יֵין Daniel 1:5, 8; מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם 1:16; מִשְׁתֵּכֶם 1:10. II. שׁתה (√ of following; "" of שׁית; = set, sit). [מִשְׁתֵּי so ᵑ7] noun masculine feast (as Biblical Hebrew מִשְׁתֶּה]; — emphatic מִשְׁתְּיָא בֵּית Daniel 5:10. |
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