Cupbearer
מַשְׁקֶהStrong’s H4945mashqeh (mash-qeh)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mashqeh is the Hebrew word usually translated “cup bearers”, “cup-bearers his” and “drink of”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
Meaning
- Butler, cup-bearer
- Irrigation, drinkirrigation · drink, drinking vessels · butlership (office of butler)
How it's translated
- the cup bearers 6
- and cup-bearers his 2
- drink of 2
- well-watered 1
- cup bearer of 1
- the cup bearer 1
- cup bearer his 1
- cup bearing his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Leviticus 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:1And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
- Genesis 40:2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
- Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
- Genesis 40:9And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
- Genesis 40:13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
- Genesis 40:20And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׁקֶה mashqeh · cupbearer
butler, cup-bearer
מַשְׁקֶה mashqeh · irrigation
1) irrigation, drink 1a) irrigation 1b) drink, drinking vessels 1c) butlership (office of butler)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cupbearer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUPBEARER, noun
An attendant of a prince or at a feast, who conveys wine or other liquors to the guests; an officer of the kings household.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.