King James Bible Dictionary

DRUNKEN, adjective Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.

2. Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.

3. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.

4. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.

A drunken slaughter.

DRUNKENLY, adverb In a drunken manner. [Little used.]

General references
Deuteronomy 21:20-21; Deuteronomy 29:19-21; 1 Samuel 1:14; Psalms 69:12; Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 21:17; Proverbs 23:20-21; Proverbs 23:29-35; Proverbs 31:4-7; Isaiah 5:11-12; Isaiah 5:22; Isaiah 19:14; Isaiah 24:9; Isaiah 24:11; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:3; Isaiah 28:7-8; Isaiah 56:12; Jeremiah 25:27; Hosea 4:11; Hosea 7:5; Hosea 7:14; Joel 1:5; Joel 3:3; Amos 2:8; Amos 2:12; Amos 6:1; Amos 6:6; Micah 2:11; Nahum 1:10; Habakkuk 2:15-17; Matthew 24:49; Luke 12:45; Luke 21:34; Romans 13:13; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:7

Figurative
Psalms 73:10; Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 28:8; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:21-23; Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 25:15-16; Jeremiah 25:27-28; Jeremiah 51:7-9; Lamentations 3:15; Ezekiel 23:31-34; Habakkuk 2:15-16
Abstinence, Total; Drunkard; Sobriety; Wine

Instances of:

Noah
Genesis 9:21

Lot
Genesis 19:33

Nabal
1 Samuel 25:36

Uriah
2 Samuel 11:13

Elah
1 Kings 16:9

Ben-Hadad and his thirty-two confederate kings
1 Kings 20:16

Ahasuerus
Esther 1:10-11

Belshazzar
Daniel 5:1-6

Falsely accused of:

Falsely accused of:
1 Samuel 1:12-16

Jesus
Matthew 11:19

The apostles
Acts 2:13-15

DRUNKENNESS, noun

1. Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.

Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness

2. Habitually ebriety or intoxication.

3. Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.