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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

H3563

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:11 - and Pharaoh’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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:13 - within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee unto thine office: and thou shalt give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:21 - And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:17 - and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:16 - the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:3 - but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own morsel, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:26 - And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:5 - And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 11:6 -
Upon the wicked he will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:5 -
Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup:
Thou maintainest my lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 23:5 -
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
Thou hast anointed my head with oil;
My cup runneth over.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:8 -
For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth;
It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same:
Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 -
I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am become as an owl of the waste places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:13

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:31 -
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red,
When it sparkleth in the cup,
When it goeth down smoothly:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:17 - Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:22 - Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:7 - neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - Then took I the cup at Jehovah’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom Jehovah 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 at thy hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ye shall surely drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:5 - And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:12 - For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:21 -
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz:
The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:31 - Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:32 - Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:33 - Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:16 - Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah’s right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.
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