Drunkenness in the Bible: Top Four Mentions of Drunkenness in Books of the Bible

While drunkenness happens, how does it actually appear in the Bible? Here is a list of top four books of the Bible in which drunkenness is mentioned the most.

Please note that the word for drunk, שכור, or drunkenness, שכרות, is similar to the word for beer, שכר, which appears 23 times in the Bible.

Here are the top mentions of books in the Bible of drunk/drunkenness:

1 – Jeremiah
25.27
48.26
51.7
51.39
51.57

2 – Isaiah
29.9
49.26
51.21
63.6

3 – Genesis
9.21
43.34
(N.B. While the story of Lot and his daughters clearly indicates he is beyond drunk, it is so obvious, the story does not mention the word “drunk”.)

3 – Shmuel
I 1.14
II 11.13

Here are other mentions of drunkenness in the Bible:
Deuteronomy 32.42
Habakkuk 2.15
Haggai 1.6
Nahum 3.11
Lamentations 4.21
Song of Songs 5.1