Hebrew word · H8249
שִׁקֻּו
veshikuvai
drink
Drink or refreshment. A rare word, from the verb šāqâ, 'to give to drink'. It appears in Hosea 2:5 (Hebrew 2:7), 'my oil and my drink', and in a related form in Proverbs 3:8 ('refreshment' for the bones).
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
drink, refreshment
Another spelling of shiq.quy (שִׁקּוּי "drink" H8250)
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
Drink or refreshment. A rare word, from the verb šāqâ, 'to give to drink'. It appears in Hosea 2:5 (Hebrew 2:7), 'my oil and my drink', and in a related form in Proverbs 3:8 ('refreshment' for the bones).
- Against the English
English versions have the singular 'drink'. The Hebrew is plural, 'my drinks', meaning everything he drinks.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Hosea 2:5 lists it with bread, water, wool, flax and oil as the basic goods of daily life. The Septuagint renders it with poma, 'drink'.
Similar words
Where it appears
Psalms · 1
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Psalm 102:9 וְ֝שִׁקֻּוַ֗י and drinks my
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
Here: 'And my drinks' (plural), a rare poetic word for what one drinks (compare Hosea 2:5, Hebrew 2:7). The plural suggests every drink he takes, cup after cup.
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