Original Language Studio
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 nations are mad.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
כּוֹסkôwç · koce
H3563 · Hebrew
H3563 · Hebrew
- Definition
- 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)
- Derivation
- from an unused root meaning to hold together;
- KJV renderings
- cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599 (כִּיס).
- Grammar
- כּוֹס — common noun, feminine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 34 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 40:11Genesis 40:11Genesis 40:11Genesis 40:13Genesis 40:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read כּוֹס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.