Lexical Definition

‎כּוֹס‎ kôwç (koce) cup ^H:N-F
from an unused root meaning to hold together

cup, (small) owl. Compare ‎כִּיס‎.

• 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)

n f
1) cup
n m
2) a kind of owl (an unclean bird)

See Greek: ποτήριον · φιάλη

Extended Information

• a kind of owl (an unclean bird)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎כּוֺס‎ noun feminine^{Lam 4:21} cup (√ unknown; perhaps kindred with ‎כִּיס‎, q. v.; Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician ‎כסת‎; Aramaic ‎כָּס‎, ; Arabic is Aramaic loan-word according to Frä¹⁷¹, but see DHM^{VOJ i. 27}) — ‎׳‎‎כ‎ absolute Gen 40:11 +; ‎כּ֯יֹס‎ Prov 23:31 construct Gen 40:11 +; suffix ‎כּוֺסִי‎ Ps 16:5; Ps 23:5 etc.; plural absolute ‎כֹּסוֺת‎ Jer 35:5 — cup 2Sam 12:3 for wine Gen 40:11 (3 t. in verse); Gen 40:13; Gen 40:21 (all E), Prov 23:31; Jer 35:5 ‎שְׂפַתאכּוֺס‎ 1Kgs 7:26; 2Chr 4:5 ‎תַּנְחוּמִים‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Jer 16:7 the cup offered to mourners; figurative (wine-) cup of judgement of ‎׳‎‎י‎, from which the nations, or Israel, must drink Jer 49:12; Lam 4:21; Ps 75:9* ‎חֲמָתוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Isa 51:17; Isa 51:22 ‎הַיַּיִן‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ ‎הַחֵמָה‎ Jer 25:15, compare vJer 25:17 vJer 25:28 ‎הַתַּרְעֵלָה‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Isa 51:17; Isa 51:22 ‎׳‎‎כ‎ ‎שַׁמָּה וּשְׁמָמָה‎ Ezek 23:33, compare vEzek 23:31 vEzek 23:32 vEzek 23:33 ‎׳‎‎יְמִין י‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Hab 2:16 by bold metaphor Babylon is such a cup ‎זָהָב‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּיַד י‎ Jer 51:7 so of wicked persons, fire, brimstone, and burning wind are ‎מְנָתאכּוֺסָם‎ Ps 11:6 the portion of their cup; ‎׳‎‎כ‎ in good sense, cup of blessing Ps 23:5 (overflowing); ‎מְנָת חֶלְקִי וְכוֺסִי‎ ‎׳‎‎י‎ Ps 16:5 ‎יְשׁוּעוֺת‎ ‎׳‎‎כ‎ Ps 116:13.

II. ‎כּוֺס‎ noun [masculine] a kind of owl (according to Vrss.; see Kn-Di Lev 11:17 word perhaps onomatopoetic) — unclean bird Lev 11:17; Deut 14:16, dwelling in ruins ‎חֳרָבוֺת‎ ‎׳‎‎כִ‎ Ps 102:7*.

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