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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 Box Gen 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:11 - “Then Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - “Now within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand according to the former manner, when you were his butler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:21 - Then he restored the chief butler to his butlership again, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - “But the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb which he had bought and nourished; and it grew up together with him and with his children. It ate of his own food and drank from his own cup and lay in his bosom; and it was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained two thousand[fn] baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three thousand[fn] baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:7 - And they served drinks in golden vessels, each vessel being different from the other, with royal wine in abundance, according to the generosity of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6 - Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
Shall be the portion of their cup.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5 - O LORD, You are the portion of my inheritance and my cup;
You maintain my lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 - You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You anoint my head with oil;
My cup runs over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup,
And the wine is red;
It is fully mixed, and He pours it out;
Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth
Drain and drink down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:13 - I will take up the cup of salvation,
And call upon the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 - Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it swirls around smoothly;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake!
Stand up, O Jerusalem,
You who have drunk at the hand of the LORD
The cup of His fury;
You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling,
And drained it out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - Thus says your Lord,
The LORD and your God,
Who pleads the cause of His people:
“See, I have taken out of your hand
The cup of trembling,
The dregs of the cup of My fury;
You shall no longer drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - “Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - Then I took the cup from the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:28 - “And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts: “You shall certainly drink!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:5 - Then I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said to them, “Drink wine.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - For thus says the LORD: “Behold, those whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunk. And are you the one who will altogether go unpunished? You shall not go unpunished, but you shall surely drink of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations are deranged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:13 - How shall I console you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 - Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
You who dwell in the land of Uz!
The cup shall also pass over to you
And you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - ‘You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup in your hand.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - “Thus says the Lord GOD:

‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup,
The deep and wide one;
You shall be laughed to scorn
And held in derision;
It contains much.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 - You are filled with shame instead of glory.
You also—drink!
And be exposed as uncircumcised![fn]
The cup of the LORD’s right hand will be turned against you,
And utter shame will be on your glory.
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