כּוֹס kos
Hebrew word for “cup” · Strong’s H3563 · used 34 times in 29 verses
Meaning
cup
Senses in the lexicon
- cup (31)
- owl (3)
How it is translated
Glosses given for kos in context, with how often each is used:
- cup 30
- little owl 2
- cups 1
- like an owl 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremiah | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Genesis | 5 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Leviticus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 |
Also in 1 more book.
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 40 (3), Jeremiah 25 (3), Ezekiel 23 (3), Isaiah 51 (2), Leviticus 11 (1), Deuteronomy 14 (1), 2 Samuel 12 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1), 2 Chronicles 4 (1), Psalms 11 (1)
Forms
- כוס 18
- הכוס 7
- וכוס 1
- ומכסו 1
- כוסם 1
- וכוסי 1
- כוסי 1
- בכוס 1
- וכסות 1
- כוסה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with kos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 10
- יַיִן yayin “wine” 5
- כּוּל kul “to sustain” 3
- כֹּה koh “thus” 5
- קֻבַּעַת qubbaat “dreg” 2
- שָׁקָה shaqah “to water” 3
- יַנְשׁוּף yanshuph “owl” 2
- תַּרְעֵלָה tarelah “reeling” 2
- טֶפַח tephach “handbreadth” 2
- עֲבִי avi “thickness” 2
- אָחוֹת achot “sister” 3
- מָצָה matsah “to drain” 2
Key verses
The verses using kos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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 — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- 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 — 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 thereof, all the wicked…
- 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 of trembling, and…
- 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 trembling, even the dregs of…
- 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, to drink it.
- 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 altogether go unpunished?…
- 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.
- 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, and shalt make…
- 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 containeth much.
- 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 unto thee, and…
See all 29 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.