<Tr> <Th> Hebrew </Th> <Th> Transliteration </Th> <Th> Strong's no . </Th> <Th> Instances in OT </Th> <Th> Biblical appearances </Th> <Th> Meaning </Th> <Th> Greek equivalent (s) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> יין </Td> <Td> yayin </Td> <Td> 3196 </Td> <Td> 140 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> the common word translated "wine" </Td> <Td> gleukos (see below), oinos (see below). </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> תירוש </Td> <Td> tirosh </Td> <Td> 8492 </Td> <Td> 38 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> properly "must"; sometimes rendered as "wine," "new wine," or "sweet wine ." It can represent juice at any stage in the fermentation process, and in some places it "represents rather wine made from the first drippings of the juice before the winepress was trodden . As such it would be particularly potent ." </Td> <Td> methusma (see below), oinos (all other references; see below) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> שכר </Td> <Td> shekar </Td> <Td> 7941 </Td> <Td> 23 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> "strong drink"; "denotes any inebriating drink with about 7--10 percent alcoholic content, not hard liquor, because there is no evidence of distilled liquor in ancient times...It was made from either fruit and / or barley beer"; the term can include wine, but generally it is used in combination with it ("wine and strong drink") to encompass all varieties of intoxicants </Td> <Td> methê ("strong drink, drunkenness"), methusma (see below), oinos (see below), sikera (see below) </Td> </Tr>

How much alcohol was in wine in bible times