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CUPBEARER

A prestigious position in the royal courts of the ancient Near East. The cupbearer would serve wine (Gen. 40:13), but also tasted it as protection against poison. A 9th-century b.c.e. jar from ʿEn-gev is inscribed “the cupbearers” and may indicate an amount of wine the cupbearers would bring from storage during any given occasion. In his prison dream, the cupbearer served Pharaoh freshly pressed grape juice in a cup (Gen. 40:11); Joseph interpreted this to mean he would be restored to his position. Nehemiah had served the Persian king Artaxerxes as cupbearer before returning to rebuild his land after the Exile (Neh. 1:11; 2:1). Jesus became the subservient and trustworthy cupbearer to his disciples when he offered them the cup at the Last Supper (Matt. 26:27).

Carey Walsh






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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