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Strong's #4221 - ποτήριον
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- a cup, a drinking vessel
- metaph. one's lot or experience, whether joyous or adverse, divine appointments, whether favourable or unfavourable, are likened to a cup which God presents one to drink: so of prosperity and adversity
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ποτήριον, τό,
drinking-cup, wine-cup, Alc. 52, Sapph. Supp. 20a . 10, Hdt. 2.37, 3.148, Ar. Eq. 120, 237, etc.; οὔποτ' ἐκ ταὐτοῦ μεθ' ἡμῶν πίεται π. ib. 1289; π. ἀργυρᾶ IG 12.232, al.; κεραμεᾶ Ath. 11.464a, etc.
2. the Cup in the Eucharist, 1 Corinthians 11:25 sq.
3. jar, Gal. 13.385.
4. receptacle for offerings in temples, PTeb. 6.27 (pl., ii B. C. ).
II absorbent preparation, Gal. 13.258, Alex.Trall. 10 (pl.).
III v. ποτίρριον.
ποτήριον, ποτηρίου, τό (diminutive of ποτήρ), a cup, a drinking vessel;
a. properly: Matthew 23:25; Matthew 26:27; Mark 7:4, 8 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mark 14:23; Luke 11:39; Luke 22:17, 20; 1 Corinthians 11:25; Revelation 17:4; πίνειν ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου, 1 Corinthians 11:28; τό ποτήριον τῆς ἐυλογιασς (see εὐλογία, 4), 1 Corinthians 10:16; with a genitive of the thing with which the cup is filled: ψυχροῦ, Matthew 10:42; ὕδατος, Mark 9:41; by metonymy, of the container for the contained, the contents of the cup, what is offered to be drunk, Luke 22:20b ((WH reject the passage) cf. Winer's 635f (589f)); 1 Corinthians 11:25f; τό ποτήριον τίνος, genitive of the person giving the entertainment (cf. Rückert, Abendmahl, p. 217f): πίνειν, 1 Corinthians 10:21 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178));
b. By a figure common to Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and not unknown to Latin writers, one's lot or experience, whether joyous or adverse, divine appointments, whether favorable or unfavorable, are likened to a cup which God presents one to drink (cf. Winer's Grammar, 32): so of prosperity, Psalm 15:5
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ποτήριον , -ου , τό ,
dimin. of ποτήρ
(< πίνω ),
[in LXX chiefly for H3563:]
a wine cup: Matthew 23:25-26; Matthew 26:27, Mark 7:4; Mark 14:23, Luke 11:39; Luke 22:17; Luke 22:20 a (WH, R, mg., cm.), 1 Corinthians 11:25, Revelation 17:4; πίνειν ἐκ τοῦ Papyri, 1 Corinthians 11:28; c. gen. rei, Matthew 10:42, Mark 9:41; τ . εὐλογίας , 1 Corinthians 10:16; by meton., of the contents of the cup, Luke 22:20 b (WH, R, mg., cm.), 1 Corinthians 11:25-26; c. gen. pers., 1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 11:27. Metaph., of experience of divine providence; of prosperity (Psalms 16:5, al.); of adversity (Psalms 11:6, Isaiah 51:17, al.): of the sufferings of Christ, Matthew 20:22-23; Matthew 26:39; Matthew 10:38-39; Matthew 14:36, Luke 22:42, John 18:11; of divine punishment, Revelation 14:10; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 18:6.†
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";spend in addition"; (Luke 8:43 א A), is found in Syll 233 (=.3 497).7 (after B.C. 229) καλῶς τὴν ἀγωνοθεσ [ίαν ἐκτελέσας ] προσανήλωσεν οὐκ ὀλίγα χρήματα.
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