cupbearer
part of speech
noun (cupbearer, cupbearers)
meaning for a pupil
1) In old royal courts, a trusted servant whose job was to pour and serve wine to the king, and often to taste it first to check it was not poisoned. tree →
2) (Bible) Used of Nehemiah, who was cupbearer to the Persian king, and of Pharaoh's cupbearer in the story of Joseph. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Pharaoh's cupbearer remembered Joseph late, which is a story of forgetting kindness. Nehemiah, as cupbearer to the Persian king, used his position to help rebuild Jerusalem. In the primary lessons: Met in Bible stories, history and fairy tales about castles and kings. It tells the reader that the person was very close to the king and trusted. In the story of Joseph, Pharaoh's cupbearer and baker had dreams in prison; Joseph explained them, but the cupbearer forgot him for two years.
examples
- Nehemiah was cupbearer to King Artaxerxes. tree →
- Pharaoh's cupbearer told Joseph about his dream of a vine. tree →
- The cupbearer tasted the wine before handing it to the king. tree →
- Only the most trusted servant could be the royal cupbearer. tree →
- The cupbearer promised to remember Joseph, but he forgot. tree →
- In the play, Sam was the cupbearer with a golden goblet. tree →
- Then she called to the cupbearers for new wine, for she thought that when his head was hot with it he might consent to stay. tree →
note
Countable compound of «cup» + «bearer» (one who carries). Older Bibles sometimes say «butler» for the same servant. Pronounced CUP-bair-er. A historical word; not used for modern jobs.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cupbearer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.