Cup
כּוֹסStrong’s H3563kos
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kos is the Hebrew word usually translated “cup of”, “cup” and “little owl”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
Meaning
- Cup
- A kind of owl (an unclean bird)
How it's translated
- cup of 10
- the cup 5
- a cup 4
- a cup of 4
- the little owl 2
- and cup of 1
- and from cup his 1
- cup their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Psalms 6
- Genesis 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 40:13Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.
- Genesis 40:21And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
- Leviticus 11:17And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
- 2 Samuel 12:3But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
- 1 Kings 7:26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
Hebrew dictionary
כּוֹס kos · cup
cup
כּוֹס kos · owl
a kind of owl (an unclean bird)
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.