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יַיִן
yayin · Hebrew · Strong's H3196 · 141 occurrences
The KJV renders 4 different Hebrew and Greek words as “wine”
What it means
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
from an unused root meaning to effervesce;
How the KJV renders it
banqueting, wine
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“banqueting”
also renders pótos (G4224)
Answers that weigh this word
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Where it appears
141 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 9:29 · HC/Td/Ncmsa
Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the sanctuary, over the fine flour, the wine, the oil, the frankincense, and the spices.
1 Chronicles 12:40 · HC/Ncmsa
Moreover those who were near to them, as far as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen: supplies of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, wine, oil, cattle, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 27:27 · HTd/Ncmsa
Over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite. Over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite.
1 Samuel 1:14 · HNcmsc/Sp2fs
Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
1 Samuel 1:15 · HC/Ncmsa
Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit. I have not been drinking wine or strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
1 Samuel 1:24 · HNcmsa
When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a container of wine, and brought him to Yahweh’s house in Shiloh. The child was young.
1 Samuel 10:3 HNcmsa1 Samuel 16:20 HNcmsa1 Samuel 25:18 HNcmsa1 Samuel 25:37 HTd/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 2:10 HC/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 2:15 HC/Td/Ncmsa2 Chronicles 11:11 HC/Ncmsa2 Samuel 13:28 HRd/Ncmsa2 Samuel 16:1 HNcmsa2 Samuel 16:2 HC/Td/NcmsaAmos 2:8 HC/NcmscAmos 2:12 HNcmsaAmos 5:11 HNcmsc/Sp3mpAmos 6:6 HNcmsaAmos 9:14 HNcmsc/Sp3mpDaniel 1:5 HC/R/NcmscDaniel 1:8 HC/R/NcmscDaniel 1:16 HC/NcmscDaniel 10:3 HC/NcmsaDeuteronomy 14:26 HC/Rd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 28:39 HC/NcmsaDeuteronomy 29:6 HC/NcmsaDeuteronomy 32:33 HNcmsc/Sp3mpDeuteronomy 32:38 HNcmscEcclesiastes 2:3 HRd/NcmsaEcclesiastes 9:7 HNcmsc/Sp2msEcclesiastes 10:19 HC/NcmsaEsther 1:7 HC/NcmscEsther 1:10 HRd/NcmsaEsther 5:6 HTd/NcmsaEsther 7:2 HTd/NcmsaEsther 7:7 HTd/NcmsaEsther 7:8 HTd/NcmsaExodus 29:40 HNcmsaEzekiel 27:18 HR/NcmscEzekiel 44:21 HC/NcmsaGenesis 9:21 HTd/NcmsaGenesis 9:24 HR/Ncmsc/Sp3msGenesis 14:18 HC/NcmsaGenesis 19:32 HNcmsaGenesis 19:33 HNcmsaGenesis 19:34 HNcmsaGenesis 19:35 HNcmsaGenesis 27:25 HNcmsaGenesis 49:11 HRd/NcmsaGenesis 49:12 HR/NcmsaHabakkuk 2:5 HTd/NcmsaHaggai 2:12 HTd/NcmsaHosea 4:11 HC/NcmsaHosea 7:5 HR/NcmsaHosea 9:4 HNcmsaHosea 14:7 HR/NcmscIsaiah 5:11 HNcmsaIsaiah 5:12 HC/Ncmsa
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