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# מַשְׁקֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4945

**butler** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

butler [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4945/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׁקֶה²: n.m. butler, cup-bearer Hiph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4945/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. butler, cup-bearer (proposes Pt. Hiph. = one giving drink);—abs. מ׳ Gn 40:5 (E), Ne 1:11, cstr. מַשְׁקֵה Gn 40:1, sf. מַשְׁקֵ֫הוּ v 13, pl. מַשְׁקִים v 2, 9, 20, 21, 23; 41:9 (all E); sf. מַשְׁקָיו 1 K 10:5 = 2 Ch 9:4 (\> ii. מ׳).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the cup bearers (6); bearer (2); cup-bearers (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.23/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־זָכַ֧ר שַֽׂר־הַמַּשְׁקִ֛ים אֶת־יוֹסֵ֖ף וַיִּשְׁכָּחֵֽהוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and not he.remembered the.chief of the.cup.bearers (et) Joseph and he forgot.him

*JPS 1917:* Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.

[Genesis 40:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.2/#tree)

וַיִּקְצֹ֣ף פַּרְעֹ֔ה עַ֖ל שְׁנֵ֣י סָרִיסָ֑יו עַ֚ל שַׂ֣ר הַמַּשְׁקִ֔ים וְעַ֖ל שַׂ֥ר הָאוֹפִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.was.angry Pharaoh towards two his.officials his towards the.chief of the.cup.bearers and towards the.chief of the.bakers

*JPS 1917:* And Pharaoh was wroth against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4945.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4945/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).