Cup
גָּבִיעַStrong’s H1375gevia (ge-vi-a)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gevia is the Hebrew word usually translated “cups”, “cup” and “cups its”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.”
Meaning
- Cup, bowl
How it's translated
- cups 6
- the cup 3
- cups its 2
- cup my 1
- cup of 1
- bowls 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- Genesis 4
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 44:12And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- Genesis 44:16And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
- Genesis 44:17And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
- Exodus 25:31And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
- Exodus 25:33Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
- Exodus 25:34And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּבִיעַ gevia · cup
cup, bowl
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cup” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUP, noun
[Latin, a little cup ]
- A small vessel of capacity, used commonly to drink out of.
- The contents of a cup; the liquor contained in a cup or that it may contain; as a cup of beer. 1 Corinthians 11:25
- In a scriptural sense, sufferings and afflictions; that which is to be received or endured.“O my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me” Matthew 26:39
- Good received; blessings and favors.“My cup runneth over” Psalms 23:5
All definitions and other forms of “cup”
- Any thing hollow like a cup; as the cup of an acorn.
- A glass cup or vessel used for drawing blood in scarification.
CUP, verb intransitive
- In surgery, to apply a cupping-glass to procure a discharge of blood from a scarified part of the body.
- To supply with cups.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.