potērion · cup

What it means

potērion (ποτήριον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cup”.

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 vessel one drinks from, like the one at the supper.
2. What someone has to suffer.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

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

• cup ×30
• cups ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×6
• Luke×5
• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×8
• Revelation×4

• Matthew 10:42

  And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

• Matthew 20:22

  But Jesus answered and said, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I am going to drink?” They say to him, “We can.”

• Matthew 20:23

  He says to them, “My cup you will drink, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

• Matthew 23:25

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

• Matthew 23:26

  Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

• Matthew 26:27

  And taking a cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you,

• Matthew 26:39

  And going forward a little, he fell on his face praying and saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not as I want, but as you want.”

• Mark 7:4

  and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they immerse themselves; and there are many other things that they have received to hold to, immersions of cups and pitchers and copper pots and dining couches.)

• Mark 9:41

  For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in the name that you belong to the Messiah, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

• Mark 10:38

  But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink, or be immersed with the immersion with which I am immersed?”

• Mark 10:39

  And they said to him, “We can.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the immersion with which I am immersed you will be immersed;

• Mark 14:23

  And taking a cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.

• Mark 14:36

  And he was saying, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you; take this cup away from me; yet not what I want, but what you want.”

• Luke 11:39

  But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness.

• Luke 22:17

  And having received a cup, and given thanks, he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves;

• Luke 22:20

  And the cup likewise after they had eaten, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

• Luke 22:42

  saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; yet not my will, but yours, be done.”

• John 18:11

  So Jesus said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath! The cup that the Father has given me, shall I not drink it?”

• 1 Corinthians 10:16

  The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of the Messiah? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of the Messiah?

• 1 Corinthians 10:21

  You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.

• 1 Corinthians 11:25

  In the same way he took also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

• 1 Corinthians 11:26

  For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

• 1 Corinthians 11:27

  So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

• 1 Corinthians 11:28

  But let a person examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

• Revelation 14:10

  he too will drink of the wine of the fury of God, which is mixed undiluted in the cup of his wrath, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur before holy angels and before the Lamb.

• Revelation 16:19

  And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, so that he would give her the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

• Revelation 17:4

  And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stone and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality,

• Revelation 18:6

  Pay back her as she also paid back, and give her double according to her works; in the cup that she mixed, mix her a double portion.

And 3 more times.