kos · cup; owl

What it means

kos (כּוֹס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cup; owl”.

Cup for drinking; figuratively, one's lot. A word with the same letters names an unclean bird, probably an owl.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A drinking vessel; also the lot that falls to each one to drink, good or bad.
2. A night bird that lives among ruins, which the law does not allow to be eaten.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cup ×30
• cups ×1
• great owl ×1
• horned owl ×1
• like an owl ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×6
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×7
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×4
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 40:11

  Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.”

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, after the former manner when you were his cupbearer.

• Genesis 40:21

  He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his post as cupbearer, and he put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

• Leviticus 11:17

  the horned owl, the cormorant, the ibis,

• Deuteronomy 14:16

  the great owl, the ibis, the white owl,

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up with him and with his sons together; from his morsel it would eat, and from his cup it would drink, and in his bosom it would lie; and it was to him like a daughter.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.

• Psalms 11:6

  He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and sulfur; and a scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.

• Psalms 16:5

  YHWH is the portion of my share and of my cup; you uphold my lot.

• Psalms 23:5

  You lay out before me a table in front of my adversaries; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

• Psalms 75:8

  For a cup is in the hand of YHWH, and the wine foams, full of mixture; and he pours out from it; surely its dregs they will drain; all the wicked of the earth will drink.

• Psalms 102:6

  I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like an owl of the ruins.

• Psalms 116:13

  The cup of salvations I will lift up, and on the name of YHWH I will call.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Do not look at wine when it is red, when it gives its sparkle in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Isaiah 51:17

  Rouse yourself, rouse yourself, stand up, Jerusalem, who drank from the hand of YHWH the cup of his fury; the goblet of the cup of reeling you drank, you drained.

• Isaiah 51:22

  thus says your Lord YHWH, and your Elohim, who defends the cause of his people: “Look, I have taken from your hand the cup of reeling, the goblet of the cup of my fury; you will not drink it ever again.

• Jeremiah 16:7

  Nor will people break bread for them in mourning to comfort him for the dead, nor give them to drink the cup of consolation for his father or for his mother.

• Jeremiah 25:15

  For thus YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, said to me: “Take this cup of the wine of fury from my hand, and make all the nations drink it, to whom I am sending you.

• Jeremiah 25:17

  So I took the cup from the hand of YHWH, and made drink all the nations to whom YHWH had sent me:

• Jeremiah 25:28

  And it will be, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: You shall surely drink!

• Jeremiah 35:5

  And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites jars full of wine, and cups, and I said to them, “Drink wine.”

• Jeremiah 49:12

  For thus says YHWH: Look, those whose judgment was not to drink the cup will certainly drink it; and you, are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, but you will certainly drink.

• Jeremiah 51:7

  A cup of gold was Babylon in the hand of YHWH, making drunk all the earth; of her wine the nations drank; therefore the nations go mad.

• Lamentations 4:21

  Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; to you also the cup will pass; you will become drunk and strip yourself bare.

• Ezekiel 23:31

  In the way of your sister you have walked, and I will put her cup into your hand.

• Ezekiel 23:32

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: The cup of your sister you will drink, the deep and the wide; you will be for laughter and for derision; it holds much.

• Ezekiel 23:33

  With drunkenness and sorrow you will be filled, a cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.

• Habakkuk 2:16

  You are filled with dishonor rather than glory; drink you too, and show yourself uncircumcised; the cup of the right hand of YHWH will come around to you, and disgrace will be on your glory.

And 5 more times.