מִשְׁתֶּה

Genesis 19:3 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Genesis 21:8 מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה a feast

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Genesis 26:30 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

Genesis 29:22 מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃ a feast

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

Genesis 40:20 מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה a feast

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he held a feast for all his officials, and in their presence he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Here: The word comes from the verb 'to drink', so it pictures a drinking-banquet. That suits a story about a cupbearer who will soon be pouring Pharaoh's wine again.

Judges 14:10 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

Then his father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as was customary for the bridegroom.

Judges 14:12 הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙ the feast

“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

Here: From the verb "to drink": a banquet where drinking is central. Here it is the wedding feast Samson hosted at Timnah (v. 10).

Judges 14:17 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֑ה the feast

She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

1 Samuel 25:36 מִשְׁתֶּ֨ה כְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה a feast, like [the] feast of

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

Here: A banquet named after drinking (from shatah, "to drink"). Here it is the sheep-shearing celebration (vv. 2, 8), the very "good day" on which David's men had asked for a share.

2 Samuel 3:20 מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃ a feast

When Abner and twenty of his men came to David at Hebron, David held a feast for them.

1 Kings 3:15 מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה a feast

Then Solomon awoke, and indeed it had been a dream. So he returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

Ezra 3:7 וּמִשְׁתֶּ֜ה and drink

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Esther 1:3 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

Here: From the verb 'to drink'. This is the first of the many drinking-feasts that shape the plot of Esther, from Xerxes' banquets to Esther's banquets to the feast of Purim.

Esther 1:5 מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה a feast

At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

Esther 1:9 מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה a feast of

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

Esther 2:18 מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה a feast, [the] feast of

Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.

Esther 5:4 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה the feast

“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”

Esther 5:5 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה the feast

“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 5:6 בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה at [the] feast of

And as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”

Esther 5:8 הַמִּשְׁתֶּה֙ the feast

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”

Esther 5:12 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֥ה the feast

“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.

Esther 5:14 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה the feast

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

Here: Esther's second wine-banquet (5:8). Haman thinks it is his moment of honor, but it is the trap where he will be exposed (7:1–6).

Esther 6:14 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה the feast

While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Esther 7:2 בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה at [the] feast of

and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”

Here: From the verb "to drink": a drinking-party or banquet. Feasts are the book's main stage — the whole plot moves from one to the next.

Esther 7:7 מִמִּשְׁתֵּ֣ה from [the] feast of

In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.

Esther 7:8 מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה [the] feast of

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Esther 8:17 מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה a feast

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

Here: Literally a 'drinking' occasion. Banquets drive the plot of Esther, and here the Jews hold one of their own.

Esther 9:17 מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה feast

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

Esther 9:18 מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה feast

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

Esther 9:19 וּמִשְׁתֶּ֖ה and a feast

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

Here: 'And a drinking-feast'. This is the same word used for the king's lavish banquets and Esther's banquets earlier in the book. Now the Jews hold the feast.

Esther 9:22 מִשְׁתֶּ֣ה feast

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Here: A banquet with wine, from the verb 'to drink.' This is the word for every banquet in Esther, here finally a feast of the rescued.

Job 1:4 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

Job’s sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Job 1:5 הַמִּשְׁתֶּ֜ה the feast

And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.

Here: From the verb 'to drink'. It means a drinking-banquet, the kind of celebration where people let their guard down. That is why Job worries about what his children may have thought or said.

Proverbs 15:15 מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה a feast

All the days of the oppressed are bad, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast.

Here: From the verb 'to drink': a banquet with wine, the kind held for weddings, weanings and royal occasions. Here it is a picture of life lived as a celebration.

Ecclesiastes 7:2 מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה a feast

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Here: From the verb 'to drink': a banquet or drinking party, such as a wedding feast or a festival celebration. Wine and merriment are at the center of it.

Isaiah 5:12 מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם feast their

At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

Here: Literally 'their drinking(s)', from the verb shatah, 'to drink'. A mishteh is a banquet where drinking is central. The sentence says that their feasts consist of music and wine.

Isaiah 25:6 מִשְׁתֵּ֥ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה a feast of

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a lavish banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Here: A banquet with wine, the word for wedding feasts, royal banquets and celebrations. It comes from the verb 'to drink', so wine is part of the very idea, which fits the two wine phrases that follow.

Jeremiah 16:8 מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה a feast

You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.

Jeremiah 51:39 מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֗ם feast their

While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.

Here: 'Their drinking-party'. The noun comes from the verb 'to drink', so it means a feast built around wine. It is 'their' feast: the kind of carousing Babylon already loves, which God now supplies to the point of ruin.

Daniel 1:5 מִשְׁתָּ֔יו drink his

The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.

Daniel 1:8 מִשְׁתָּ֑יו drink his

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.

Here: "The wine of his drinking" means the wine the king himself drinks (v. 5). The word can also mean a banquet, so it carries the feel of royal feasting.

Daniel 1:10 מִשְׁתֵּיכֶ֑ם drink your

but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”

Daniel 1:16 מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם drink their

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.