Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4945
מַשְׁקֶה
mashqehmash-keh'
cupbearer; irrigation
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4945is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4945
properly, causing to drink, i.e. a butler; by implication (intransitively), drink (itself); figuratively, a well-watered region
The King James renders it: butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mashqeh is rendered "cupbearer; irrigation". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "cupbearer".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:10And 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.)
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
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 13:10מַשְׁקֶ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's nineteen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: cupbearer, and irrigation.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| cupbearerStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar… |
| irrigationStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the cup bearers6
- and cup-bearers his2
- drink of2
- and drink1
- cup bearer1
- cup bearer his1
- cup bearer of1
- cup bearing his1
- drink1
- from well-watered land of1
- the cup bearer1
- well-watered1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַשְׁחִית | mashchith | destruction | Uses12 |
| מַשְׁמָן | mashman | fat | Uses7 |
| מַשְׂכִּית | maskith | figure | Uses6 |
| מַשְׂכֹּרֶת | maskoreth | wage | Uses4 |
| מַשְׁרוֹקִי | mashroqi | flute | Uses4 |
| מַשְׁקוֹף | mashqoph | lintel | Uses3 |
| מַשְׂטֵמָה | mastemah | hatred | Uses2 |
| מַשְׁחֵת | mashcheth | destruction | Uses1 |
| מַשְׂרֵת | masreth | pan | Uses1 |
| מַשְׂכִּיל | maskil | Maskil | Uses1 |
| מַשְׂמְרָה | masmerah | nail | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֔ים2
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים2
- מַשְׁקֵ֨ה2
- הַמַּשְׁקֶ֣ה1
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֗ים1
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֖ים1
- וּמַשְׁקֶ֥ה1
- וּמַשְׁקָ֔יו1
- וּמַשְׁקָיו֙1
- מִמַּשְׁקֵ֣ה1
- מַשְׁקֵ֥ה1
- מַשְׁקֶ֑ה1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine plural6HTd/Vhrmpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vhrmsa
Genesis
eleven uses
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.)
- מַשְׁקֶ֑הmashkehnoun · masculine singulartagged: well-watered
Some time later, the king’s cupbearer and baker offended their master, the king of Egypt.
- מַשְׁקֵ֥הmashkehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cup bearer of
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֔יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
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.
- הַמַּשְׁקֶ֣הhamashkehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: the cup bearer
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֛יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
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.
- מַשְׁקֵֽהוּ׃mashkehunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cup bearer his
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.
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֗יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֖יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
- מַשְׁקֵ֑הוּmashkehunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: cup bearing his
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot all about him.
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֛יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- הַמַּשְׁקִ֔יםhamashkimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the cup bearers
Leviticus
one use
Any food coming into contact with water from that pot will be unclean, and any drink in such a container will be unclean.
- מַשְׁקֶה֙mashkehnoun · masculine singulartagged: drink
1 Kings
two uses
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
- וּמַשְׁקָ֔יוumashkavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and cup-bearers his
All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- מַשְׁקֵ֨הmashkehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: drink of
2 Chronicles
two uses
the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
- וּמַשְׁקָיו֙umashkavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and cup-bearers his
All King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, because it was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
- מַשְׁקֵ֨הmashkehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: drink of
Nehemiah
one use
O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give Your servant success this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” (At that time I was the cupbearer to the king.)
- מַשְׁקֶ֖הmashkehnoun · masculine singulartagged: cup bearer
Isaiah
one use
For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
- וּמַשְׁקֶ֥הumashkehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and drink
Ezekiel
one use
And one sheep shall be given from each flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These are for the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for the people, declares the Lord GOD.
- מִמַּשְׁקֵ֣הmimashkehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from well-watered land of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.