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Lexicon :: Strong's G4221 - potērion

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ποτήριον
Transliteration
potērion (Key)
Pronunciation
pot-ay'-ree-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of a derivative of the alternate of πίνω (G4095)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:148,841

Strong’s Definitions

ποτήριον potḗrion, pot-ay'-ree-on; neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095; a drinking-vessel; by extension, the contents thereof, i.e. a cupful (draught); figuratively, a lot or fate:—cup.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's G4221 in the following manner: cup (33x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's G4221 in the following manner: cup (33x).

  1. a cup, a drinking vessel

  2. metaph. one's lot or experience, whether joyous or adverse, divine appointments, whether favourable or unfavourable, are likened to a cup which God presents one to drink: so of prosperity and adversity

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ποτήριον potḗrion, pot-ay'-ree-on; neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095; a drinking-vessel; by extension, the contents thereof, i.e. a cupful (draught); figuratively, a lot or fate:—cup.
STRONGS G4221:
ποτήριον, ποτηρίου, τό (diminutive of ποτήρ), a cup, a drinking vessel;
a. properly: Matthew 23:25; Matthew 26:27; Mark 7:4, 8 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mark 14:23; Luke 11:39; Luke 22:17, 20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Revelation 17:4; πίνειν ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου, 1 Corinthians 11:28; τό ποτήριον τῆς ἐυλογιασς (see εὐλογία, 4), 1 Corinthians 10:16; with a genitive of the thing with which the cup is filled: ψυχροῦ, Matthew 10:42; ὕδατος, Mark 9:41; by metonymy, of the container for the contained, the contents of the cup, what is offered to be drunk, Luke 22:20b ((WH reject the passage) cf. Winer's 635f (589f)); 1 Corinthians 11:25f; τό ποτήριον τίνος, genitive of the person giving the entertainment (cf. Rückert, Abendmahl, p. 217f): πίνειν, 1 Corinthians 10:21 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178)); 1 Cor. 11:27 (cf. Winers Grammar, 411 (410)).
b. By a figure common to Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and not unknown to Latin writers, one's lot or experience, whether joyous or adverse, divine appointments, whether favorable or unfavorable, are likened to a cup which God presents one to drink (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32): so of prosperity, Psalm 15:5 (Ps. 16:5); Psalm 22:5 (Ps. 23:5); Psalm 115:13 (Ps. 116:13); of adversity, Psalm 10:6 (Ps. 11:6); Psalm 74:9 (Ps. 75:9); Isaiah 51:17, 22. In the N. T. of the bitter lot (the sufferings) of Christ: Matthew 26:39, 42 Rec.; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; πίνειν τό ποτήριον μου or ὁ ἐγώ πίνω, to undergo the same calamities which I undergo, Matthew 20:22, 23; Mark 10:38, 39 (Plautus Cas. 5, 2, 53 (50) ut senex hoc eodem poculo quod ego bibi biberet, i. e. that he might be treated as harshly as I was); used of the divine penalties: Revelation 14:10; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 18:6. ((Alcaeus, Sappho), Herodotus, Ctesias (), Aristophanes, Lucian, others; the Sept. for כּוס.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Psalms
10:6; 11:6; 15:5; 16:5; 22:5; 23:5; 74:9; 75:9; 115:13; 116:13
Isaiah
51:17; 51:22
Matthew
10:42; 20:22; 20:23; 23:25; 26:27; 26:39; 26:42
Mark
7:4; 7:8; 9:41; 10:38; 10:39; 14:23; 14:36
Luke
11:39; 22:17; 22:20; 22:20; 22:42
John
18:11
1 Corinthians
10:16; 10:21; 11:25; 11:25; 11:27; 11:28
Revelation
14:10; 16:19; 17:4; 18:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4221 matches the Greek ποτήριον (potērion),
which occurs 32 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:11 - And the cup of Pharao was in my hand; and I took the bunch of grapes, and squeezed it into the cup, and gave the cup into Pharao's hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - Yet three days and Pharao shall remember thy office, and he shall restore thee to thy place of chief cupbearer, and thou shalt give the cup of Pharao into his hand, according to thy former high place, as thou wast wont to be cupbearer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:21 - And he restored the chief cupbearer to his office, and he gave the cup into Pharao's hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - But the poor man had only one little ewe lamb, which he had purchased, and preserved, and reared; and it grew up with himself and his children in common; it ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - (LXX 7:12) and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6 - (LXX 10:6) He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5 - (LXX 15:5) The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou art he that restores my inheritance to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - (LXX 22:5) Thou hast prepared a table before me in presence of them that afflict me: thou hast thoroughly anointed my head with oil; and thy cup cheers me like the best wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 - (LXX 74:9) For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and he has [fn]turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:13 - (LXX 115:4) I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - For if thou shouldest set thine eyes on bowls and cups, thou shalt afterwards go more naked than a pestle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury: for thou hast drunk out and drained the cup of calamity, the cup of wrath:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - thus saith the Lord God that judges his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of calamity, the cup of my wrath; and thou shalt not drink it any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - and there shall be no bread broken in mourning for them for consolation over the dead: they shall not give one to drink a cup for consolation over his father or his mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - (LXX 32:15) Thus said the Lord God of Israel; Take the cup of this unmixed wine from mine hand, and thou shalt cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - (LXX 32:17) So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - (LXX 32:28) And it shall come to pass, when they refuse to take the cup out of thine hand, to drink it, that thou shalt say, Thus said the Lord; Ye shall surely drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:5 - (LXX 42:5) And I set before them a jar of wine, and cups, and I said, Drink ye wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - (LXX 30:6) For thus saith the Lord; They who were not appointed to drink the cup have drunk it; and thou shalt by no means be cleared:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - (LXX 28:7) Babylon has been a golden cup in the Lord's hand, causing all the earth to be drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore they were shaken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 - Mem. What shall I testify to thee, or what shall I compare to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save and comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for the cup of thy destruction is enlarged: who shall heal thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Chsen. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - Thou didst walk in the way of thy sister; and I will put her cup into thine hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - Thus saith the Lord; Drink thy sister's cup, deep and large, and full, to cause complete drunkenness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - And thou shalt be thoroughly weakened; and the cup of destruction, the cup of thy sister Samaria,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 - Drink thou also thy fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon thee, and dishonour has gathered upon thy glory.
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