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Strong's #3178 - μέθη
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μέθη, ἡ,
(for μεθύω: μέθη, cf. πληθύω: πλήθᾱ)
I strong drink, καλῶς ἔχειν μέθης to be pretty well drunk, Hdt. 5.20; ὑπερπλησθεὶς μέθης S. OT 779; μέθῃ βρεχθείς E. El. 326; ἡ ἀπειρία τῆς μ. Antipho 4.3.2; ἐσφαλμένος ὑπὸ μέθης Pl. R. 396d; μανδραγόρᾳ ἢ μέθῃ συμποδίσαι τινά ib. 488c; μ. εὐώδης παλαιός fragrant old wine, Hp. Epid. 7.82.
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1. drunkenness, μ. αἰώνιος Pl. R. 363d; πίνειν εἰς μέθην Id. Lg. 775b; μέθῃ χρῆσθαι ib. 674a; διὰ μέθης ποιήσασθαι.. τὴν συνουσίαν Id. Smp. 176e; κωμάζειν μετὰ μέθης Id. Lg. 637b; τρεῖς εἶχεν προφάσεις, μέθην, ἔρωτα, ἄγνοιαν D. 21.38: pl., carousals, Democr. 159, Pl. Lg. 682e; ἐν μέθαις Id. Phdr. 256c, cf. LXX Ju. 13.15, Romans 13:13, etc.
2. metaph., ὑπὸ μέθης τοῦ φόβου ναυτιᾷ Pl. Lg. 639b, cf. Metrod. Herc. 831.18; μ. νηφαλίῳ κατασχεθεὶς ὥσπερ οἱ κορυβαντιῶντες Ph. 1.16, cf. 2.320.
III Μέθη personified, in Art, Paus. 2.27.3.
μέθη, μέθης, ἡ (akin to μέθυ, wine; perhaps any intoxicating drink, Latintemetum; cf. German Meth (mead)), intoxication; drunkenness: Luke 21:34; plural, Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:21. (Hebrew שֵׁכָר, intoxicating drink, Proverbs 20:1; Isaiah 28:7; and שִׁכָּרון, intoxication, Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 39:19; (Antiphon), Xenophon, Plato, others) (Cf. Trench, § lxi.)
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";drunkenness,"; is found in the plur., as in Romans 13:13, Galatians 5:21, in the invitation to the celebration of Hadrian’s accession P Giss I. 3.8 (A.D. 117) (= Chrest. I. p. 571) γέλωσι καὶ μέθαις ταῖς ἀπὸ κρήνης τὰς ψυχὰς ἀνέντες. See also Vett. Val. p. 90.13 εἰς ἡδονὰς καὶ μέθας ἀναλίσκουσι τὰ περικτηθέντα, and cf. Poimandres § 27 (ed. Reitzenstein, P. 337) ὦ λαοί, ἄνδρες γηγενεῖς, οἱ μέθῃ καὶ ὕπνῳ ἑαυτοὺς ἐκδεδωκότες καὶ τῇ ἀγνωσίᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ, νήψατε, παύσασθε δὲ κραιπαλῶντες, θελγόμενοι ὕπνῳ ἀλόγῳ.
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