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Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Butler

Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus translated is rendered also (plural) "cup-bearers" (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chr. 9:4). Nehemiah (1:11) was cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes. It was a position of great responsibility and honour in royal households.

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Antony Made Herod And Phasaelus Tetrarchs, After They Had Been Accused To No Purpose; And How The Parthians When They Brought Antigonus Into Judea Took Hyrcanus And Phasaelus Captives. Herod's Flight; And What Afflictions Hyrcanus And Phasaelus Endured.

Antiquities Book 14, Chapter 13

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BUTLER

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Butler

Properly a servant in charge of the wine (Gen. 40:1-13; 41:9). The Hebrew word, mashkeh, thus translated is rendered also (plural) "cup-bearers" (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chr. 9:4). Nehemiah (1:11) was cup-bearer to king Artaxerxes. It was a position of great responsibility and honour in royal households.

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Genesis 1

Genesis 40

1 Kings 1

1 Kings 10:5

2 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 9:4

Nehemiah 1

Nehemiah 1:11

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