mashke · cupbearer, drink

What it means

mashke (מַשְׁקֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cupbearer, drink”.

What gives drink. Said of a land, well watered; said of a person, the cupbearer who serves the king his drink.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The one who served the king's drink.
2. What is drunk, or the vessel to drink from.
3. Well-watered land, with enough water for pasture or crops.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cupbearers ×8
• cupbearer ×5
• drink ×2
• drinking ×2
• was well-watered ×1
• watered pastures ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered (before YHWH destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of YHWH, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.

• Genesis 40:1

  It happened after these things that the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and the baker sinned against their lord, the king of Egypt.

• Genesis 40:2

  Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

• Genesis 40:5

  And the two of them dreamed a dream, each his own dream, in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream: the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison.

• Genesis 40:9

  So the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, look, a vine was before me,

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

• Genesis 40:20

  On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

• Genesis 40:21

  He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his post as cupbearer, and he put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

• Genesis 40:23

  Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “My sins I am remembering today.

• Leviticus 11:34

  Any food that may be eaten, on which water comes, will be unclean; and any drink that may be drunk from any such vessel will be unclean.

• 1 Kings 10:5

  and the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the station of his attendants and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his burnt offering that he offered at the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; there was no silver; it was not considered in the days of Solomon as anything.

• 2 Chronicles 9:4

  the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the station of his attendants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to the house of YHWH; and there was no more spirit in her.

• 2 Chronicles 9:20

  All the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

• Nehemiah 1:11

  I beg you, Adonai, let your ear, I beg you, be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name; and give success, I beg you, to your servant today, and grant him mercy before this man.” Now I was cupbearer to the king.

• Isaiah 32:6

  For the fool speaks folly, and his heart does wickedness, to practice godlessness and to speak error against YHWH, to leave empty the soul of the hungry, and the drink of the thirsty he makes fail.

• Ezekiel 45:15

  And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from the watered pastures of Israel, for a grain offering and for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make expiation for them, declares Adonai YHWH.

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