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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Bei not among winebibbers
caba' (Hebrew #5433)
to quaff to satiety, i.e. become tipsy
KJV usage: drunkard, fill self, Sabean, (wine-)bibber.
Pronounce: saw-baw'
Origin: a primitive root
yayin (Hebrew #3196)
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
KJV usage: banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).
Pronounce: yah'-yin
Origin: from an unused root meaning to effervesce
; among riotous eaters
zalal (Hebrew #2151)
to shake (as in the wind), i.e. to quake; figuratively, to be loose morally, worthless or prodigal
KJV usage: blow down, glutton, riotous (eater), vile.
Pronounce: zaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2107)
of ζflesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
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Prov. 23:29‑35• 29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his color in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
(Prov. 23:29‑35)
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Prov. 20:1• 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. (Prov. 20:1)
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Prov. 28:7• 7Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father. (Prov. 28:7)
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Prov. 31:6‑7• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
(Prov. 31:6‑7)
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Isa. 5:11,22• 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
(Isa. 5:11,22)
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Isa. 22:13• 13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. (Isa. 22:13)
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Matt. 24:49• 49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; (Matt. 24:49)
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Luke 15:13• 13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. (Luke 15:13)
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Luke 16:19• 19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: (Luke 16:19)
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Luke 21:34• 34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. (Luke 21:34)
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Rom. 13:13• 13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. (Rom. 13:13)
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Eph. 5:18• 18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (Eph. 5:18)
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1 Peter 4:3‑4• 3For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
4Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
(1 Peter 4:3‑4)
flesh.
Heb. their flesh.

J. N. Darby Translation

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Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh.