כּוֹס
kos
cup
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "kos" (H3563A) is a noun that refers to a cup. Its primary semantic domain is related to food and drink, indicating its connection to the consumption of liquids. The word appears 31 times in the Bible, suggesting its significance in various contexts. The range of usage for "kos" is quite broad, from everyday objects used for drinking to ceremonial vessels in rituals and sacrifices. This versatility highlights the importance of cups in ancient Hebrew culture, where they played a crucial role in both practical and symbolic contexts. The significance of "kos" lies in its connection to community, hospitality, and spiritual practices. Cups were often used to share food and drink with others, fostering social bonds and a sense of belonging. In ritual contexts, cups were used to symbolize covenant, memorialize events, and connect with the divine.
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Occurrences in Scripture
31 total occurrences across the text
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 16:5Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.
Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup runs over.
Psalms 75:8For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
Psalms 116:13I will take the cup of salvation, and call on Yahweh’s name.
Proverbs 23:31Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Isaiah 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
Isaiah 51:22Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
Isaiah 51:22Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
Jeremiah 16:7Men won’t break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead. Men won’t give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
Jeremiah 25:15For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
Jeremiah 25:17Then I took the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:
Jeremiah 25:28It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.
Jeremiah 35:5I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine!”
Jeremiah 49:12For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
Jeremiah 51:7Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh’s hand, who made all the earth drunk. The nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.
Ezekiel 23:31You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will give her cup into your hand.’
Ezekiel 23:32“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.
Ezekiel 23:33You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
Ezekiel 23:33You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
Habakkuk 2:16You are filled with shame, and not glory. You will also drink, and be exposed! The cup of Yahweh’s right hand will come around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
Genesis 40:11Pharaoh’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.”
Genesis 40:11Pharaoh’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.”
Genesis 40:11Pharaoh’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.”
Genesis 40:13Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
Genesis 40:21He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
2 Samuel 12:3but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was like a daughter to him.
1 Kings 7:26It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
2 Chronicles 4:5It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.