Strong's Hebrew · H4960
H4960 mishteh
מִשְׁתֶּה
mish-teh'
feast
Looking for Greek G4960 systoichéō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4960. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
mishteh appears 46 times in Scripture, including Genesis 19:3 and 1 Samuel 25:36. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
In the King James Version
banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
Derivation
from H8354 (שָׁתָה);
Appears 46 times in Scripture
“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.”
“So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.”
“So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.”
“You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.”
“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.”
“So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
