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Headword: *si/kera
Adler number: sigma,394
Translated headword: sikera
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] mixed drink.
And among Hebrews an intoxicating drink goes by this name: wine mixed with sweeteners; [so named] from the mixing [sugkekra=sqai].
Greek Original:
*si/kera: skeuasto\n po/ma. kai\ par' *(ebrai/ois ou(/tw lego/menon me/qusma: oi)=nos summigh\s h(du/smasin: e)k tou= sugkekra=sqai.
Notes:
cf. Hebrew שֵׁכָר šēkhār, strong drink.
This is an Aramaic word (see M. Sokoloff, Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, pp. 1145-46 [it does not seem to occur in any extant sources of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic]), not Hebrew, although the Greek word is used to translate a similar Hebrew word in the Greek Bible: (Leviticus 10.9, Numbers 6.3, Deuteronomy 29.5, Judges 13.4, 7, 14, 1 Samuel 1.15). The Septuagint has si/kera for this word in every place except 1 Samuel 1.15, which has instead me/qusma. (The B text of the Judges verses has me/qusma in the first two occurrences, the second has si/kera me/qusma [a textual intrusion from a marginal note?].) Philo Judaeus quotes Leviticus 10.9 in On Drunkenness 127 and 138 and so the word si/kera occurs there too. The occurrence of the word at Luke 1.15 in the New Testament is similar to but not an exact quotation of Numbers 6.3 or Leviticus 10.9.
The Suda's opening definition, skeuasto\n po/ma, occurs also in ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 123-4. The common Semitic root behind this Aramaic word is ultimately the source, via Arabic, of English 'sugar'.
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 31 October 2002@19:23:48.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added note, set status) on 14 December 2004@15:48:47.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation) on 15 December 2004@03:07:37.
Catharine Roth (added note from Adam McCollum with cosmetic changes) on 28 February 2006@01:01:22.
Raphael Finkel (Added Hebrew.) on 28 February 2006@09:25:59.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 4 May 2011@05:46:30.
David Whitehead on 24 December 2013@06:09:51.
David Whitehead on 29 December 2014@09:07:33.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 16 March 2015@00:03:46.
David Whitehead (coding) on 25 May 2016@10:53:31.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticules) on 17 February 2022@23:52:10.

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