# כּוֹס (kos)

Israeli respelling: kos. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3563. 29 Old Testament occurrences.

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)

King James renderings: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599 (כִּיס).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/kos-h3563

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 40:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/40/11) — And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.
- [Genesis 40:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/40/13) — Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand…
- [Genesis 40:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/40/21) — And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:
- [Leviticus 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/17) — And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
- [Deuteronomy 14:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/16) — The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
- [2 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/3) — But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with hi…
- [1 Kings 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/7/26) — And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousan…
- [2 Chronicles 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/4/5) — And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received…
- [Psalms 11:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/11/6) — Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
- [Psalms 16:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/16/5) — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- [Psalms 23:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/23/5) — Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
- [Psalms 75:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/75/8) — For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs there…
- [Psalms 102:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/6) — I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- [Psalms 116:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/116/13) — I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
- [Proverbs 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/31) — Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- [Isaiah 51:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/17) — Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup o…
- [Isaiah 51:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/22) — Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of tremblin…
- [Jeremiah 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/7) — Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to…
- [Jeremiah 25:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/15) — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, t…
- [Jeremiah 25:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/17) — Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
- [Jeremiah 25:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/25/28) — And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye sha…
- [Jeremiah 35:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/35/5) — And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
- [Jeremiah 49:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/12) — For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altoget…
- [Jeremiah 51:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/7) — Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nat…
- [Lamentations 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/21) — Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken,…
- [Ezekiel 23:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/31) — Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.
- [Ezekiel 23:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/32) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contai…
- [Ezekiel 23:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/33) — Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.
- [Habakkuk 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/16) — Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned…