Definition

to imbibe (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• assuredly
• banquet
• certainly
• drink(-er
• -ing)
• drunk ( -ard)
• surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.