סֹבֶא çôbeʼ — potation, concretely (wine), or abstractly (carousal)
Translated in the KJV as drink, drunken, wine.
from H5433; potation, concretely (wine), or abstractly (carousal).
çôbeʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
וְסֹבֵֽא Deut 21:20 Participle (active), masculine singular
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›