STRONGS NUMBER H4960


Word Summary
mishteh: a feast, drink
Original Word: מִשְׁתֶּה
Transliteration: mishteh
Phonetic Spelling: (mish-teh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a feast, drink
Meaning: drink, drinking, a banquet, feast
Strong's Concordance
banquet, drank, drink, feasted,

From shathah; drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast -- banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).

see HEBREW shathah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4960. mishteh

מִשְׁתֶּה45 noun masculineGenesis 21:8

1 feast;

2 drink; — absolute ׳מGenesis 19:3 +; construct מִשְׁתֵּה1 Samuel 25:36 +; suffix מִשְׁתָּיוDaniel 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; 5:14; 8:17; 9:19; lasting seven days Judges 14:12, 17 (wedding-feast, compare Genesis 29:27, and see BenzArchaeology 143; Ency. Bib. 2949 NowArchaeology i. 163); ׳מ עָשָׂהgive or make a feast (sometimes + ל‎ person) 19:3; 26:30 (both J), 21:8; 40:20 (both E), Judges 14:10; 2 Samuel 3:20; 1 Kings 3:15; Esther 1:3 8t. Esther; Job 1:4 + 2 Samuel 13:27 (twice in verse) ᵐ5‎ Th We Dr and modern; הַיַּיִן מִשְׁתֵּהEsther 5:6; 7:2, 7, מִשְׁתֶּה בֵּיתJeremiah 16:8; Ecclesiastes 7:2, הַיַּיִן מִשְׁתֵּה בֵּיתEsther 7:8; וְשִׂמְחָה מ ׳יוֺם9:17-18, compare 9:22; of ׳י‎s banquet for all peoples Isaiah 25:6 (figurative of Messianic blessings); figurative also in מ ׳טוֺבלֵֿב תָּמִידProverbs 15:15.

2 drink (late): וּמ ׳מַאֲכָל וָשֶׁמֶןEzra 3:7; suffix מִשְׁתָּיו יֵיןDaniel 1:5, 8; מִשְׁתֵּיהֶם1:16; מִשְׁתֵּכֶם1:10.

II. שׁתה‎ (√ of following; "" of שׁית‎; = set, sit).

[מִשְׁתֵּי‎ so ᵑ7‎] noun masculine feast (as Biblical Hebrew מִשְׁתֶּה‎]; — emphatic מִשְׁתְּיָא בֵּיתDaniel 5:10.