Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cupbearer
Usage: butler, cup-bearer
Mashqeh means “watered” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4945 — synomosia (“comspiracy”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4945 מַשׁקֶה (mashqeh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mashqeh (mash-keh') n-m. 1. (properly) causing to drink, i.e. a butler 2. (by implication) (intransitively), drink (itself) It has 18 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include cup, drink, cupbearers, drinking, and cupbearer. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mashqeh (mash-keh') n-m. 1. (properly) causing to drink, i.e. a butler 2. (by implication) (intransitively), drink (itself) 3. (figuratively) a well-watered region [from H8248] KJV: butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered. Root(s): H8248
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cupbearer
Usage: butler, cup-bearer
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mashqeh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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18 indexed usages in 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.
And 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.
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4945.
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.
And 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.
And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
And 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.
And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
Yet 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.
And 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.
And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand:
Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4945, grouped by book.
Mashqeh (Strong's H4945) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "watered". mashqeh (mash-keh') n-m. 1. (properly) causing to drink, i.e. a butler 2. (by implication) (intransitively), drink (itself)
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H4945 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4945 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cup, drink, cupbearers, drinking, and cupbearer. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.