H4945 - מַשְׁקֶה (mashqeh)

H4945 מַשְׁקֶה (mashqeh) mash-keh'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

properly, causing to drink, i.e. a butler; by implication (intransitively), drink (itself); figuratively, a well-watered region

Derivation: from H8248 (שָׁקָה);

KJV Usage: butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered.

TWOT Reference: 2452c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) irrigation, drink

1a) irrigation

1b) drink, drinking vessels

1c) butlership (office of butler)

2) butler, cup-bearer

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G746

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַשְׁקֶה mashqeh BDB Definition: 1) irrigation, drink 1a) irrigation 1b) drink, drinking vessels 1c) butlership (office of butler) 2) butler, cup-bearer Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H8248 Same Word by TWOT Number: 2452c Total KJV Occurrences: 20

Bible Occurrences (18)

13:10 40:1 40:2 40:5 40:9 40:13 40:20 40:21 40:23 41:9

11:34

10:5 10:21

9:4 9:20

1:11

32:6

45:15

Genesis 13:10

And Lot looked out... and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan,... all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 40:1

Some time later......, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers,... the chief cupbearer... and the chief baker,

Genesis 40:5

both of these men — the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison... — had a dream...... on the same... night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Genesis 40:9

So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream...: In my dream there was a vine before me,

Genesis 40:13

Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.

Genesis 40:20

On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday..., he held a feast for all his officials, and in [their presence] he lifted up the heads of the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.

Genesis 40:21

Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.