Definition
from an unused root meaning to hold together; a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
Traditional renderings: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599.
Traditional renderings: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders כּוֹס:
- ποτήριονpotērion“cup”always
Usage patterns
Occurrences
33 total
- Genesis 40:11וְכ֥וֹס · cup; כּ֣וֹס · cup; הַכּ֖וֹס · the cupPharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into his cup, and placed the cup in his hand.”
- Genesis 40:13כוֹס־ · cupWithin three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 40:21הַכּ֖וֹס · the cupPharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position, so that he once again placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
- Leviticus 11:17הַכּ֥וֹס · the little owl…the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl,
- Deuteronomy 14:16הַכּ֥וֹס · the little owl…the little owl, the great owl, the white owl,
- 2 Samuel 12:3וּמִכֹּס֤וֹ · from his cup…but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
- 1 Kings 7:26כּ֖וֹס · of a cupIt was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5כּ֔וֹס · of a cupIt was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
- Psalm 11:6כּוֹסָֽם׃On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Psalm 16:5וְכוֹסִ֑י · and my cupThe LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
- Psalm 23:5כּוֹסִ֥י · my cupYou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
- Psalm 75:8כ֪וֹס · a cupFor a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.
- Psalm 102:6כְּכ֣וֹס · like an owlI am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Psalm 116:13כּוֹס־ · the cupI will lift the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
- Isaiah 51:17כּ֣וֹס · the cup; כּ֧וֹס · the cupAwake, awake! Rise up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD the cup of His fury; you who have drained the goblet to the dregs—the cup that makes men stagger.
- Isaiah 51:22כּ֣וֹס · the cup; כּ֣וֹס · the cupThus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
- Jeremiah 16:7כּ֣וֹס · a cupNo food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
- Jeremiah 25:15כּ֨וֹס · cupThis is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- Jeremiah 25:17הַכּ֖וֹס · the cupSo I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
- Jeremiah 25:28הַכּ֥וֹס · the cupIf they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
- Jeremiah 35:5וְכֹס֑וֹת · and [some] cupsThen I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”
- Jeremiah 49:12הַכּוֹס֙ · the cupFor this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
- Jeremiah 51:7כּוֹס־ · cupBabylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Lamentations 4:21כּ֔וֹס · Yet the cupSo rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.
- Ezekiel 23:31כוֹסָ֖הּ · her cupBecause you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’
- Ezekiel 23:32כּ֤וֹס · cupThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
- Ezekiel 23:33כּ֚וֹס · with a cup; כּ֖וֹס · the cupYou will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
- Habakkuk 2:16כּ֚וֹס · The cupYou will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.