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Lexicon :: Strong's H3563 - kôs

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כּוֹס
Transliteration
kôs
Pronunciation
koce
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to hold together
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 965,966

Strong’s Definitions

כּוֹס kôwç, koce; 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):—cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H3563 in the following manner: cup (31x), owl (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H3563 in the following manner: cup (31x), owl (3x).
feminine noun
  1. cup

    masculine noun
  2. a kind of owl (an unclean bird)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כּוֹס kôwç, koce; 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):—cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599.
STRONGS H3563: Abbreviations
† I. כּוֺס noun feminineLamentations 4:21 cup (√ unknown; perhaps kindred with כִּיס, which see; Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician כסת; Aramaic כָּס, bdb046801; Arabic bdb046802 is Aramaic loan-word according to Frä171, but see DHMVOJ i. 27) — כ׳ absolute Genesis 40:11 +; כּ֯יֹס Proverbs 23:31; construct Genesis 40:11 +; suffix כּוֺסִי Psalm 16:5; Psalm 23:5 etc.; plural absolute כֹּסוֺת Jeremiah 35:5; — cup 2 Samuel 12:3; for wine Genesis 40:11 (3 times in verse); Genesis 40:13, 21 (all E), Proverbs 23:31; Jeremiah 35:5; שְׂפַתאכּוֺס 1 Kings 7:26; 2 Chronicles 4:5; תַּנְחוּמִים כ׳ Jeremiah 16:7 the cup offered to mourners; figurative (wine-) cup of judgement of י׳, from which the nations, or Israel, must drink Jeremiah 49:12; Lamentations 4:21; Psalm 75:9; חֲמָתוֺ כ׳ Isaiah 51:17, 22; הַיַּיִן כ׳ הַחֵמָה Jeremiah 25:15, compare Jeremiah 25:17; Jeremiah 25:28; הַתַּרְעֵלָה כ׳ Isaiah 51:17, 22; כ׳ שַׁמָּה וּשְׁמָמָה Ezekiel 23:33, compare Ezekiel 23:31; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 23:33; יְמִין י׳ כ׳ Habakkuk 2:16; by bold metaphor Babylon is such a cup זָהָב כ׳ בְּיַד י׳ Jeremiah 51:7; so of wicked persons, fire, brimstone, and burning wind are מְנָתאכּוֺסָם Psalm 11:6 the portion of their cup; כ׳ in good sense, cup of blessing Psalm 23:5 (overflowing); מְנָת חֶלְקִי וְכוֺסִי י׳ Psalm 16:5; יְשׁוּעוֺת כ׳ Psalm 116:13.

† II. כּוֺס noun [masculine] a kind of owl (according to Vrss.; see Kn-Di Leviticus 11:17; word perhaps onomatopoetic) — unclean bird Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16, dwelling in ruins חֳרָבוֺת כִ׳ Psalm 102:7.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

40:11; 40:11; 40:11; 40:13; 40:21

Leviticus

11:17; 11:17

Deuteronomy

14:16

2 Samuel

12:3

1 Kings

7:26

2 Chronicles

4:5

Psalms

11:6; 16:5; 16:5; 23:5; 23:5; 75:9; 102:7; 116:13

Proverbs

23:31; 23:31

Isaiah

51:17; 51:17; 51:22; 51:22

Jeremiah

16:7; 25:15; 25:17; 25:28; 35:5; 35:5; 49:12; 51:7

Lamentations

4:21; 4:21

Ezekiel

23:31; 23:32; 23:33; 23:33

Habakkuk

2:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3563 matches the Hebrew כּוֹס (kôs),
which occurs 34 times in 29 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:11 - “Now Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into Pharaoh’s cup; then I placed the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head (present you in public) and restore you to your position; and you will [again] put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand just as [you did] when you were his cupbearer.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:21 - He restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and the cupbearer [once again] put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:17 - the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:16 - the little owl, the great owl, the long-eared owl,
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 -

But the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb

Which he had purchased and nourished;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It ate his food, drank from his cup, it lay in his arms,

And was like a daughter to him.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand [fn]baths.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - It was a handbreadth (the width of the four fingers) thick; its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold [fn]3,000 baths (measures).
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6 -

Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire;

Fire and [fn]brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5 -

The LORD is the portion of my inheritance, my cup [He is all I need];

You support my lot.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 -

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.

You have anointed and refreshed my head with [fn]oil;

My cup overflows.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 -

For a cup [of His wrath] is in the hand of the LORD, and the wine foams;

It is well mixed and fully spiced, and He pours out from it;

And all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink down to its dregs.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 -

I am like a [mournful] [fn]vulture of the wilderness;

I am like a [desolate] owl of the wasteland.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:13 -

I will lift up the cup of salvation

And call on the name of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 -

Do not look at wine when it is red,

When it sparkles in the glass,

When it goes down smoothly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 -

Wake yourself up! Wake yourself up! Stand up, O Jerusalem,

You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of His wrath,

You who have drunk the cup of staggering and intoxication to the dregs [leaving only sediment].

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 -

So says your Lord, the LORD, who is also your God

Who pleads the cause of His people,

“Listen carefully, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering and intoxication,

The cup of My wrath;

You shall never drink it again.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - People will not offer food to the mourners, to comfort anyone [as they grieve] for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 -

For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 -

Then I (Jeremiah) took the cup from the LORDS hand and made all the nations to whom the LORD had sent me drink it:

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - “And if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you will say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, “You shall surely drink!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:5 - Then I set before the men of the house of the Rechabites pitchers full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 -

For thus says the LORD, “Behold, those (Israel) who were not sentenced to drink the cup [of wrath] shall certainly drink it, and are you to remain unpunished? You will not be acquitted and go unpunished, but you will certainly drink [from the cup of wrath and judgment].

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 -

Babylon has been a golden cup in the LORDS hand,

Intoxicating all the earth.

The nations drank her wine;

Therefore the nations have gone mad.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 -

Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom,

Who lives in the land of Uz.

But the cup [of the wine of God’s wrath] will pass to you as well;

You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - ‘You have walked in the way of your sister (Samaria); therefore I will give her cup [of judgment] into your hand.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - “Thus says the Lord GOD,

‘You will drink your sister’s cup,

Which is deep and wide [and filled to the brim].

You shall be laughed at and derided;

It contains much [too much to endure].

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 -

‘You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,

With the cup of horror and desolation,

With the cup of your sister Samaria.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 -

“You will be filled with disgrace instead of honor.

Now drink and expose your own nakedness!

The cup [of wrath] in the LORDS right hand will come around to you [O destroyer],

And utter disgrace will be on your own glory.

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