Words the Bible translates as cup
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- potērionποτήριονcup: a vessel for drinking, and by extension the portion it holds that a person must drink
- kosכּוֹסan ordinary drinking cup, and in the Psalms and the Prophets the fixed image of a cup that God hands someone to drink, so that what is in the cup is that person's due, whether judgment, comfort, or blessing.
+1 more meaning
- a small nocturnal bird on the Bible's list of birds forbidden as food, most likely some kind of owl.
- gevi'aגָּבִיעַa cup or bowl: a rounded open vessel for drinking or serving, and by extension the cup-shaped ornaments of the golden lampstand
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