כּוֹס
kôwç · koce
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: 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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599 (כִּיס).
Letters
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the open hand that covers › to fasten and establish › to support and uphold
The open hand that covers that works to fasten and establish that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of כּוֹס above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
34 occurrences · 34 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the cup8 · 24%
- cup6 · 18%
- of the cup3 · 9%
- of a cup2 · 6%
- with the cup2 · 6%
- and the little owl1 · 3%
- the little owl1 · 3%
- of his own cup1 · 3%
- of their cup1 · 3%
- and of my cup1 · 3%
- my cup1 · 3%
- there is a cup1 · 3%
- i am like an owl1 · 3%
- in the cup1 · 3%
- neither shall men give them the cup1 · 3%
- i the cup1 · 3%
- and cups1 · 3%
- her cup1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.