Mashqeh — H4945

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. irrigation, drink
1. irrigation
2. drink, drinking vessels
3. butlership (office of butler)
2. butler, cup-bearer

Usually translated as

butler, drink, drinking, butlership, cupbearer, watered, fat pasture

Origin

from H8248

• Derived from Shâqâh (H8248)

Greek equivalents

• archḗ (G746)

Occurrences

Mashqeh occurs 19 times in 18 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (10), Leviticus (1), 1 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (1), Isaiah (1), Ezekiel (1)

• Genesis 13:10 — And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered (מַשְׁקֶ֑ה) 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.
• Genesis 40:1 — And it came to pass after these things, that the butler (מַשְׁקֵ֥ה) of the king of Egypt and his baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.
• Genesis 40:2 — And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers (הַמַּשְׁקִ֔ים), and against the chief of the bakers.
• Genesis 40:5 — 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 (הַמַּשְׁקֶ֣ה) and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
• Genesis 40:9 — And the chief butler (הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים) told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;
• Genesis 40:13 — 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 (מַשְׁקֵֽהוּ).
• Genesis 40:20 — 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 (הַמַּשְׁקִ֗ים) and of the chief baker among his servants.
• Genesis 40:21 — And he restored the chief butler (הַמַּשְׁקִ֖ים) unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
• Genesis 40:21 — And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership (מַשְׁקֵ֑הוּ) again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
• Genesis 40:23 — Yet did not the chief butler (הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים) remember Joseph, but forgat him.
• Genesis 41:9 — Then spake the chief butler (הַמַּשְׁקִ֔ים) unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
• Leviticus 11:34 — Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink (מַשְׁקֶה֙) that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
• 1 Kings 10:5 — And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers (וּמַשְׁקָ֔יו), and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
• 1 Kings 10:21 — And all king Solomon’s drinking (מַשְׁקֵ֨ה) 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.
• 2 Chronicles 9:4 — And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers (וּמַשְׁקָיו֙) 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.
• 2 Chronicles 9:20 — And all the drinking (מַשְׁקֵ֨ה) 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.
• Nehemiah 1:11 — 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 (מַשְׁקֶ֖ה).
• Isaiah 32:6 — 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 (וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה) of the thirsty to fail.
• Ezekiel 45:15 — And one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the fat pastures (מִמַּשְׁקֵ֣ה) of Israel; for a meat offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make reconciliation for them, saith the Lord GOD.