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Lexicon :: Strong's H4960 - mištê

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מִשְׁתֶּה
Transliteration
mištê
Pronunciation
mish-teh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2477c

Strong’s Definitions

מִשְׁתֶּה mishteh, mish-teh'; from H8354; drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast:—banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x

The KJV translates Strong's H4960 in the following manner: feast (31x), banquet (10x), drink (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 46x
The KJV translates Strong's H4960 in the following manner: feast (31x), banquet (10x), drink (5x).

  1. feast, drink, banquet

    1. feast, banquet

    2. drink

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִשְׁתֶּה mishteh, mish-teh'; from H8354; drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast:—banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
STRONGS H4960: Abbreviations
מִשְׁתֶּה 45 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; Esther 5:14; Esther 8:17; Esther 9:19; lasting seven days Judges 14:12, Judges 14:17 (wedding-feast, compare Genesis 29:27, and see BenzArchaeology 143; Ency. Bib. 2949 NowArchaeology i. 163); עָשָׂה מ׳ give or make a feast (sometimes + ל person) Genesis 19:3; Genesis 26:30 (both J), Genesis 21:8; Genesis 40:20 (both E), Judges 14:10; 2 Samuel 3:20; 1 Kings 3:15; Esther 1:3 + 8 times Esther; Job 1:4 + 2 Samuel 13:27 (twice in verse) Greek Version of the LXX Th We Dr and modern; מִשְׁתֵּה הַיַּיִן Esther 5:6; Esther 7:2, Esther 7:7, בֵּית מִשְׁתֶּה Jeremiah 16:8; Ecclesiastes 7:2, בֵּית מִשְׁתֵּה הַיַּיִן Esther 7:8; יוֺם מ׳ וְשִׂמְחָה Esther 9:17, Esther 9:18, compare Esther 9:22; of י׳'s banquet for all peoples Isaiah 25:6 (figurative of Messianic blessings); figurative also in תָּמִיד טוֺבלֵֿב מ׳ Proverbs 15:15.
†2. drink (late): וָשֶׁמֶן מַאֲכָל וּמ׳ Ezra 3:7; suffix יֵין מִשְׁתָּיו Daniel 1:5, Daniel 1:8; מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם Daniel 1:16; מִשְׁתֵּכֶם Daniel 1:10.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4961.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

19:3; 19:3; 21:8; 21:8; 26:30; 29:27; 40:20

Judges

14:10; 14:12; 14:17

1 Samuel

25:36; 25:36

2 Samuel

3:20; 13:27

1 Kings

3:15

Ezra

3:7

Esther

1:3; 2:18; 5:6; 5:14; 7:2; 7:7; 7:8; 8:17; 9:17; 9:18; 9:19; 9:22

Job

1:4; 1:5

Proverbs

15:15

Ecclesiastes

7:2

Isaiah

5:12; 25:6

Jeremiah

16:8; 51:39

Daniel

1:5; 1:5; 1:8; 1:10; 1:16

H4960

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4960 matches the Hebrew מִשְׁתֶּה (mištê),
which occurs 46 times in 43 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:3 - But he insisted strongly; so they turned in to him and entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - So the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the same day that Isaac was weaned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:30 - So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:20 - Now it came to pass on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - So his father went down to the woman. And Samson gave a feast there, for young men used to do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:12 - Then Samson said to them, “Let me pose a riddle to you. If you can correctly solve and explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:17 - Now she had wept on him the seven days while their feast lasted. And it happened on the seventh day that he told her, because she pressed him so much. Then she explained the riddle to the sons of her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 - Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:20 - So Abner and twenty men with him came to David at Hebron. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15 - Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - They also gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the permission which they had from Cyrus king of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:3 - that in the third year of his reign he made a feast for all his officials and servants—the powers of Persia and Media, the nobles, and the princes of the provinces being before him—

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:5 - And when these days were completed, the king made a feast lasting seven days for all the people who were present in Shushan the citadel, from great to small, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - Then the king made a great feast, the Feast of Esther, for all his officials and servants; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces and gave gifts according to the generosity of a king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:4 - So Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:5 - Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly, that he may do as Esther has said.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:6 - At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:8 - “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, then let the king and Haman come to the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - Moreover Haman said, “Besides, Queen Esther invited no one but me to come in with the king to the banquet that she prepared; and tomorrow I am again invited by her, along with the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14 - While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:2 - And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:7 - Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?” As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17 - And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a holiday. Then many of the people of the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews fell upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of the month[fn] they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 - But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of the month[fn] they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar with gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and for sending presents to one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:4 - And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:5 - So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed[fn] God in their hearts.” Thus Job did regularly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:15 - All the days of the afflicted are evil,
But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - Better to go to the house of mourning
Than to go to the house of feasting,
For that is the end of all men;
And the living will take it to heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:12 - The harp and the strings,
The tambourine and flute,
And wine are in their feasts;
But they do not regard the work of the LORD,
Nor consider the operation of His hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:6 - And in this mountain
The LORD of hosts will make for all people
A feast of choice pieces,
A feast of wines on the lees,
Of fat things full of marrow,
Of well-refined wines on the lees.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:8 - “Also you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and drink.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:39 - In their excitement I will prepare their feasts;
I will make them drunk,
That they may rejoice,
And sleep a perpetual sleep
And not awake,” says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:5 - And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king’s delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:8 - But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:10 - And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:16 - Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
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