STRONGS NUMBER H4945


Word Summary
mashqeh: butler, cupbearer
Original Word: מַשְׁקֶה
Transliteration: mashqeh
Phonetic Spelling: (mash-keh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: butler, cupbearer
Meaning: causing to drink, a butler, drink, a well-watered region
Strong's Concordance
butlership, cupbearer, drinking, fat pasture, watered

From shaqah; properly, causing to drink, i.e. A butler; by implication (intransitively), drink (itself); figuratively, a well-watered region -- butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered.

see HEBREW shaqah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4945. mashqeh

I. מַשְׁקֶהnoun masculine butler, cup-bearer (properly Participle

Hiph`il = one giving drink); — absolute ׳מGenesis 40:5 (E), Nehemiah 1:11, construct מַשְׁקֵהGenesis 40:1, suffix מַשְׁקֵ֫הוּ40:13, plural מַשְׁקִים40:2; 40:9; 40:20; 40:21; 40:23; 41:9 (all E); suffix מַשְׁקָיו1 Kings 10:5 2 Chronicles 9:4 ( > II. ׳מ‎).

II. מַשְׁקֶהnoun masculineLeviticus 11:34 irrigation, drink; — absolute ׳מGenesis 13:10; Leviticus 11:34, construct מַשְׁקֵה1 Kings 10:21 3t.; suffix מַשְׁקֵ֫הוּGenesis 40:21; —

1 irrigation Genesis 13:10 (J; abstract for concrete, =) well-irrigated, of land; Ezekiel 45:15 (< ᵐ5‎ Co Siegf Berthol Toy Krae מִשְׁמְּחוֺת‎; Gr מִקְנֵה‎).

2 drink Isaiah 32:6; Leviticus 11:34; מ ׳כְּלֵיdrinking-vessels 1 Kings 10:21 2 Chronicles 9:20.

3 = office of butler, butlership Genesis 40:21(E).