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כּוֹס H3563

H3563 is the Hebrew word כּוֹס, transliterated kôwç and said koce. The King James Version most often renders it cup.

Word: כּוֹסTransliteration: kôwçSaid: koceLanguage: HebrewIn the KJV: 28 verses

What it means

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).

Where it comes from

from an unused root meaning to hold together.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 33 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

cup 27×little owl 2×own cup 1×like an owl 1×men give them the cup 1×cups 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599 (כִּיס).

Verses using כּוֹס

All 28 verses, quoted in full.

Genesis 40:11 · KJV

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 · KJV

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, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Genesis 40:21 · KJV

And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

Leviticus 11:17 · KJV

And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,

Deuteronomy 14:16 · KJV

The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,

2 Samuel 12:3 · KJV

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 his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

1 Kings 7:26 · KJV

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 thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 4:5 · KJV

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 and held three thousand baths.

Psalm 16:5 · KJV

The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

Psalm 23:5 · KJV

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 75:8 · KJV

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 of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

Psalm 102:6 · KJV

I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

Psalm 116:13 · KJV

I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

Proverbs 23:31 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 wrung them out.

Isaiah 51:22 · KJV

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 the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

Jeremiah 16:7 · KJV

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 drink for their father or for their mother.

Jeremiah 25:15 · KJV

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 25:17 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 shall certainly drink.

Jeremiah 35:5 · KJV

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 · KJV

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? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.

Jeremiah 51:7 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 thyself naked.

Ezekiel 23:31 · KJV

Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand.

Ezekiel 23:32 · KJV

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.

Ezekiel 23:33 · KJV

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 · KJV

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 shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

Common questions

What does Strong's H3563 mean?

H3563 is the Hebrew word כּוֹס (kôwç), meaning 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).

How is H3563 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it cup (27 times), little owl (2 times), own cup (1 time), like an owl (1 time), men give them the cup (1 time), among others.

How many times does H3563 appear in the Bible?

כּוֹס (kôwç) is tagged in 28 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H3563 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to hold together.

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