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# כּוֹס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3563

**cup** — used 31 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cup [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3563/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כּוֹס: n.f. cup [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3563/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. La 4:21 cup (√ unknown; perhaps kindred with כִּיס, q.v.; NH id.; Ph. כסת; Aramaic כָּס, ܟܳܣ; Arabic كَأْسٌ is Aramaic loan-wd. according to Frä 171, but see DHMVOJ i, 27)—כ׳ abs. Gn 40:11 +; כּ֯יֹס Pr 23:31; cstr. Gn 40:11 +; sf. כּוֹסִי ψ 16:5; 23:5 etc.; pl. abs. כֹּסוֹת Je 35:5;—cup 2 S 12:3; for wine Gn 40:11(×3), 13, 21 (all E), Pr 23:31 Je 35:5; שְׂפַת־כּוֹס 1 K 7:26 2 Ch 4:5; כ׳ תַּנְחוּמִים Je 16:7 the cup offered to mourners; fig. (wine-) cup of judgment of י׳, from which the nations, or Isr., must drink Je 46:12 La 4:21 ψ 75:9; כ׳ חֲמָתוֹ Is 51:17, 22; כ׳ הַיַּיִן הַחֵמָה Je 25:15, cf. v 17. 28; כ׳ הַתַּרְעֵלָה Is 51:17, 22; כ׳ שַׁמָּה וּשְׁמָמָה Ez 23:33, cf. v 31, 32, 33; כ׳ יְמִין י׳ Hb 2:16; by bold metaph. Babylon is such a cup כ׳ זָהָב בְּיַד י׳ Je 51:7; so of wicked persons, fire, brimstone, and burning wind are מְנָת־כּוֹסָם ψ 11:6 the portion of their cup; כ׳ in good sense, cup of blessing ψ 23:5 (overflowing); י׳ מְנָת חֶלְקִי וְכוֹסִי ψ 16:5; כ׳ יְשׁוּעוֹת ψ 116:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cup (10); the cup (9); a cup (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 116:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.116.13/#tree)

כּוֹס־יְשׁוּע֥וֹת אֶשָּׂ֑א וּבְשֵׁ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֶקְרָֽא׃

*Word for word:* a.cup of.salvation(s) I.will.lift.up and on the.name of.Yahweh I.will.call

*JPS 1917:* I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

[Psalms 16:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.16.5/#tree)

יְֽהוָ֗ה מְנָת־חֶלְקִ֥י וְכוֹסִ֑י אַ֝תָּ֗ה תּוֹמִ֥יךְ גּוֹרָלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Yahweh \[is\].the.portion my.possession my and cup my you \[are\].holding lot my

*JPS 1917:* O LORD, the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup, Thou maintainest my lot.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3563.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3563/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).