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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?{HR}Who hath contentions? Who hath complaining?{HR}Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
30They that tarry long at the wine;{HR}They that go to try mixed wine.
31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,{HR}When it sparkleth in the cup,{HR}When it goeth down smoothly.
32At the last it biteth like a serpent,{HR}And stingeth like an adder.
33Thine eyes shall behold strange women,{HR}And thy heart shall utter froward things.
34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea,{HR}And as he that lieth down on the top of a mast.
35They have smitten me [thou wilt say], I am not sore;{HR}They have beaten me, I felt not:{HR}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 a brawler:{HR}And whoso erreth thereby is not wise. (Prov. 20:1)
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Prov. 28:7• 7Whoso observeth the law is a son that hath understanding;{HR}But he that is a companion of profligates bringeth shame to his father. (Prov. 28:7)
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Prov. 31:6‑7• 6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish,{HR}And wine unto the bitter of soul:{HR}
7Let him drink, and forget his poverty,{HR}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 tarry late into the 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 tomorrow we die. (Isa. 22:13)
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Matt. 24:49• 49and shall begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and shall eat and drink with the drunken, (Matt. 24:49)
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Luke 15:13• 13And after not many days the younger son gathering all together went away into a country a long way off, and there dissipated his property, living in debauchery. (Luke 15:13)
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Luke 16:19• 19Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day. (Luke 16:19)
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Luke 21:34• 34But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares, (Luke 21:34)
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Rom. 13:13• 13As in daylight, let us walk becomingly, not in revels and drunkenness, not in chambering and indecency, not in strife and envy; (Rom. 13:13)
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Eph. 5:18• 18And be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled with [the] Spirit, (Eph. 5:18)
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1 Peter 4:3‑4• 3For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously,
(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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Be not among wine-bibbers,{HR}Among gluttonous eaters of flesh.