King James Bible Dictionary

The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Genesis 9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly condemned (Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10; Ephesians 5:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:7, 8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not uncommon among the Israelites.

The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being drunk with sorrow, and with the wine of God's wrath (Isaiah 63:6; Jeremiah 51:57; Ezekiel 23:33). To "add drunkenness to thirst" (Deuteronomy 29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised Version "to destroy the moist with the dry", i.e., the well-watered equally with the dry land, meaning that the effect of such walking in the imagination of their own hearts would be to destroy one and all.

DRUNK, adjective [from drunken. See Drink.]

1. Intoxicated; inebriated; overwhelmed or overpowered by spirituous liquor; stupefied or inflamed by the action of spirit on the stomach and brain. It is brutish to be drunk

Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess.

2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquor.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood. Deuteronomy 32:42.

[Note. drunk was formerly used as the participle of drink; as, he had drunk wine. But in modern usage, drank has taken its place; and drunk is now used chiefly as an adjective.]

General references
Deuteronomy 21:20-21; Psalms 69:12; Proverbs 23:21; Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:3; Joel 1:5; Nahum 1:10; 1 Corinthians 5:11; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Drunkenness

DRUNKARD, noun One given to ebriety or an excessive used of strong liquor; a person who habitually or frequently is drunk.

A drunkard and a glutton shall come to poverty. Proverbs 23:21.

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.