What Does “Headwaiter” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
The man in charge of a feast, who looked after the food and the wine. At Cana he tasted the water that had become wine.
Where it appears in the Bible
John 2:8-9
What the Bible says
John 2:8-9
8And Jesus saith to them: Draw out now, and carry to the chief steward of the feast. And they carried it. 9And when the chief steward had tasted the water made wine, and knew not whence it was, but the waiters knew who had drawn the water; the chief steward calleth the bridegroom,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “maestresala”; John 2:8-9