Lexical Definition

‎סָבָא‎ çâbâʼ (saw-baw') to imbibe ^H:V
a primitive root

drunkard, fill self, Sabean, (wine-) bibber.

• to quaff to satiety, i.e. become tipsy

1) to drink heavily or largely, imbibe
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to imbibe
1a2) wine-bibber, drunkard (participle) (subst)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎סָבָא‎] verb imbibe, drink largely (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic ‎סְבָא‎ id. (rare); compare Assyrian sabû, sesame-wine Dl^HWB; — Arabic wine, is probably loan-word and import foreign wine denominative, Frä^{157 f}); —

Qal Imperfect 1 plural cohortative ‎נִסְבְּאָה‎ Isa 56:12 Participle active ‎סֹבֵא‎ Deut 21:20; Prov 23:21 plural ‎סובאים‎ Ezek 23:42 Kt (Qr ‎סָבָאִים‎, see below); construct ‎סֹבְאֵי‎ Prov 23:20 passive ‎סְבוּאִים‎ Nah 1:10 — imbibe, with accusative ‎שֵׁכָר‎ Isa 56:12 participle active = substantive wine-bibber, drunkard Deut 21:20; Prov 23:21 (both + ‎זוֺלֵל‎); fully, ‎סֹבְאֵי יָיִ֑ן‎ Prov 23:20 (+ ‎זֹלֲלֵי בָשָׂר‎); so also Ezek 23:42 Kt (Qr perhaps name of a people, so ᵑ6 AV, see below), which read Sm RV Sgfr^Kau Da; Co thinks dittograph of ‎מוּבָאִים‎, but perhaps the reverse (Toy^Hpt omits ‎מוּבָאִים‎): > Berthol (q. v.) ‎מִסְּבָא‎; other conjectures see in Sm; ‎וּכְסָבְאָם‎ ‎סְבוּאִים‎ Nah 1:10 is probably corrupt, passive participle of person dubious, and sense obscure; strike out both as dittograph Gunk^{ZAW xiii (1893), 235} Now; omitted in translation We Kau. On Hos 4:18 see ‎סֹבֶא‎.

[‎סָבָא‎] only plural ‎סָבָאִים‎ Ezek 23:42 Qr = drunkards, wine-bibbers (?) so Thes and others, but see ‎סְבָאִים‎.

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