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shechar. Any intoxicating beverage, wine especially from the grape (compare with ). Strong drink was extracted from other fruit also, as the pomegranate (). Beer was made from barley, lupin, skirrett, and other herbs being substituted for hops. Spices were mingled with it (). Cider, or "apple wine," is noticed in the Mishna, Terum, 2, section 2. Honey wine was a mixture of wine, honey, and pepper, also a concoction from the grape called debaash by the Hebrew, by modern Syrians dibs, wine, milk or water being added. Date wine also was made in Egypt. The Speaker's Commentary explains the proverbial phrase, , "so that the soul that is drunken with sin carry away that which thirsts for sin." "Drinking iniquity like water himself (), he corrupts others thirsting for it."