Definition

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

Etymology

from H8248 (שָׁקָה);

Where the KJV renders it

• butler(-ship)
• cupbearer
• drink(-ing)
• fat pasture
• watered

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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