# H4945 מַשְׁקֶה

מַשְׁקֶה (mashqeh), Strong’s H4945: properly, causing to drink, i.e. a butler; by implication (intransitively), drink (itself); figuratively, a well-watered region KJV: butler(-ship), cupbearer…

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

KJV: butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered.

Derived from [שָׁקָה shâqâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H8248) (to quaff)

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַשְׁקֶה n.m. irrigation, drink—
- 1 irrigation
- 2 drink; drinking-vessels
- 3 = office of butler, butlership
- מַשְׁקֶה n.m
- מַשְׁקֶה n.m. butler, cup-bearer

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 13:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=10) — Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before the LORD…
- [Genesis 40:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=1) — After these things, the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord, the king of Egypt.
- [Genesis 40:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=2) — Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker.
- [Genesis 40:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=5) — They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the…
- [Genesis 40:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=9) — The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- [Genesis 40:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=13) — Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup…
- [Genesis 40:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=20) — On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the…
- [Genesis 40:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=21) — He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
- [Genesis 40:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=23) — Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- [Genesis 41:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=9) — Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.