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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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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.

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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 Lev 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:17 - ‘the little owl, the fisher owl, and the screech owl;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:16 - “the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

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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 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 102:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:6 - I am like a pelican of the wilderness;
I am like an owl of the desert.

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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 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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