Bible word study

Mashqeh (Strong’s H4945): Meaning in the Bible

Mashqeh (מַשְׁקֶה) is the Hebrew word numbered H4945 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, causing to drink, i.e. a butler; by implication (intransitively), drink (itself); figuratively, a well-watered region. In the King James Bible it is translated butler(-ship), cupbearer, drink(-ing), fat pasture, watered..

• Original wordמַשְׁקֶה
• Transliterationmashqeh
• Pronunciationmash-keh'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4945
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H8248;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Mashqeh appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mashqeh (H4945) stands behind 7 English renderings in 7 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Genesis (2), Leviticus (1), 1 Kings (1).

How the King James Bible renders Mashqeh, by count

• drink2 of 7 (29 percent)
• drinking2 of 7 (29 percent)
• butlership1 of 7 (14 percent)
• pastures1 of 7 (14 percent)
• watered1 of 7 (14 percent)

Three places to read Mashqeh

• Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
• Leviticus 11:34 Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
• 2 Chronicles 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Mashqeh in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

Related words