'Drunk' in the Bible
But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking his time in coming,’ and begins to beat the servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
and said to him, “Everyone else serves his best wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then he serves that which is not so good; but you have kept back the good wine until now.”
But others were laughing and joking and ridiculing them, saying, “They are full of sweet wine and are drunk!”
These people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is [only] the third hour of the day (9:00 a.m.);
for when you eat, each one hurries to get his own supper first [not waiting for others or the poor]. So one goes hungry while another gets drunk.
Do not get drunk with wine, for that is wickedness (corruption, stupidity), but be filled with the [Holy] Spirit and constantly guided by Him.
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.
For soil that drinks the rain which often falls on it and produces crops useful to those for whose benefit it is cultivated, receives a blessing from God;
I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints (God’s people), and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus [who were martyred]. When I saw her, I wondered in amazement.
For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her [sexual] immorality, and the kings and political leaders of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth and economic power of her sensuous luxury.”
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- Disguised (12 instances)
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- Drunk (111 instances)
- Drunkard (15 instances)
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- Fresh (82 instances)
- Glorious (126 instances)
- Imbibe (1 instance)
- Intoxicated (11 instances)
- Merry (38 instances)
- Pledge (101 instances)
- Salute (49 instances)
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