"to be intoxicated, be drunk, Mt. 24:49; Acts 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:21; 1 Thess. 5:7; Rev. 17:6*"
Definition and meaning
to be intoxicated, be drunk, Mt. 24:49; Acts 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:21; 1 Thess. 5:7; Rev. 17:6*
In the original Greek the word is written: μεθύω
Historical context
Rome had controlled Judea since 63 BC. Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple into one of the most magnificent structures in the ancient world — and simultaneously murdered members of his own family. The common people paid multiple layers of taxation and were politically powerless. Into that world a carpenter from Galilee began teaching that the kingdom of God had arrived.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of methyo (G3184) across the King James Bible.
And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
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Common questions
Strong's G3184 (methyo) is a Greek word that means: to be intoxicated, be drunk, Mt. 24:49; Acts 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:21; 1 Thess. 5:7; Rev. 17:6* It appears 7 times in the King James Bible.
The word methyo (G3184) appears 7 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G3184 is methyo, a Greek word defined as: to be intoxicated, be drunk, Mt. 24:49; Acts 2:15; 1 Cor. 11:21; 1 Thess. 5:7; Rev. 17:6*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
methyo is a Greek word found in the New Testament.