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Strong's #4221 - ποτήριον

Transliteration
potḗrion
Phonetics
pot-ay'-ree-on
Origin
of a derivative of the alternate of (G4095)
Parts of Speech
neuter noun
TDNT
6:148,841
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. a cup, a drinking vessel
  2. 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
Hebrew Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 3563 ‑ כּוֹס (koce);  3627 ‑ כְּלִי (kel‑ee');  6907 ‑ קֻבַּעַת (koob‑bah'‑ath);  
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

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.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

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)); (cf. Winers Grammar, 411 (410)).

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 (); Psalm 22:5 (); Psalm 115:13 (); of adversity, Psalm 10:6 (); Psalm 74:9 (); Isaiah 51:17, 22. In the N. T. of the bitter lot (the sufferings) of Christ: Matthew 26:39, 42 Rec.; Mark 14:36; Luke 22:42; John 18:11; πίνειν τό ποτήριον μου or ἐγώ πίνω, to undergo the same calamities which I undergo, Matthew 20:22, 23; Mark 10:38, 39 (Plautus Cas. 5, 2, 53 (50) ut senex hoc eodem poculo quod ego bibi biberet, i. e. that he might be treated as harshly as I was); used of the divine penalties: Revelation 14:10; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 18:6. ((Alcaeus, Sappho), Herodotus, Ctesias (), Aristophanes, Lucian, others; the Sept. for כּוס.)


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

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.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

";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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List of Word Forms
ποτήρια ποτηριον ποτήριον ποτήριόν ποτηριου ποτηρίου ποτηριω ποτηρίω ποτηρίῳ ποτηριων ποτηρίων poterio potēriō poteríoi potēríōi poterion poteríon potērion potēriōn potēríōn potḗrion potḗrión poteriou poteríou potēriou potēríou
 
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