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Strong's #3563 - כּוֹס
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- cup
- n m
- a kind of owl (an unclean bird)
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1245) xk (כס KS) AC: Cover CO: Cup AB: ?: (eng: case)
A) xk (כס KS) AC: ? CO: Seat AB: ?: The seat is like a cup that holds, conceals, a person. A covering of something. To cover a group by counting.
Nm) xk (כס KS) - Seat: KJV (1): seat - Strongs: H3676 (כֵּס)
Nf1) exk (כסה KSH) - Cup: [df: hVq hwVq] KJV (4): cover, cup - Strongs: H7184 (קַשְׂוָה)
Nf2 ) txk (כסת KST) - I. Inkwell:A cup for holding ink. II. Amulets:A sewn arm or wrist band as a covering. KJV (5): pillow, inkhorn - Strongs: H3704 (כֶּסֶת), H7083 (קֶסֶת)
Nf3) tfxk (כסות KSWT) - Covering: Covering, raiment, vesture. KJV (8): covering, raiment, vesture - Strongs: H3682 (כְּסוּת)
hf1) exkm (מכסה MKSH) - Value: According to a number. KJV (2): number, worth - Strongs: H4373 (מִכְסָה)
km) xkm (מכס MKS) - Tribute: An assessment based on a number. KJV (6): tribute - Strongs: H4371 (מֶכֶס)
lf2 ) txkxk (כסכסת KSKST) - Scales: The covering of a fish. Also the scales of leather armor. [df: tVqVq] KJV (8): scales, mail - Strongs: H7193 (קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת)
rfm ) ifxk (כסוי KSWY) - Covering: KJV (2): covering - Strongs: H3681 (כָּסוּי)
B) xxk (כסס KSS) AC: Count CO: Number AB: ?: To cover a group by counting.
V) xxk (כסס KSS) - Count: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) count - Strongs: H3699 (כָּסַס)
E) axk (כסא KSA) AC: Appoint CO: Seat AB: ?: The seat is like a cup that holds, conceals, a person.
Nm) axk (כסא KSA) - Appointed: To be set in place. [df: hok] KJV (2): appoint - Strongs: H3677 (כֶּסֶה)
em ) axik (כיסא KYSA) - Seat: Usually a throne or seat of authority. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: hok] KJV (138): throne, seat, stool - Strongs: H3678 (כִּסֵּא), H3764 (כָּרְסֵא)
H) exk (כסה KSH) AC: Cover CO: ? AB: ?: A hiding, covering or concealing of something.
V) exk (כסה KSH) - Cover: [df: hVk] KJV (153): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Pual, Piel, Participle) cover, hide, conceal, overwhelm, clad, close, cloth - Strongs: H3680 (כָּסָה), H3780 (כָּשָׂה)
hm ) exkm (מכסה MKSH) - Covering: What covers something. KJV (16): covering - Strongs: H4372 (מִכְסֶה)
km) exkm (מכסה MKSH) - Covering: What covers something. KJV (4): cover, clothing - Strongs: H4374 (מְכַסֶּה)
J) xfk (כוס KWS) AC: ? CO: Cup AB: ?: A cup holds its contents.
Nf) xfk (כוס KWS) - I. Cup: II. Owl:[Unknown connection to root] KJV (34): cup, owl - Strongs: H3563 (כּוֹס)
M) xik (כיס KYS) AC: ? CO: Bag AB: ?: A cup or bag that conceals its contents.
Nm) xik (כיס KYS) - Bag: KJV (6): bag, purse - Strongs: H3599 (כִּיס)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
; Arabic 
is Aramaic loan-word according to Frä171, but see DHM VOJ i. 27) — ׳כ absolute Genesis 40:11 +; כּ֯יֹס Proverbs 23:31; construct Genesis 40:11 +; suffix כּוֺסִי Psalm 16:5; Psalm 23:5 etc.; plural absolute כֹּסוֺת Jeremiah 35:5; — cup 2 Samuel 12:3; for wine Genesis 40:11 (3t. in verse); Genesis 40:13,21 (all E), Proverbs 23:31; Jeremiah 35:5; שְׂפַתאכּוֺס 1 Kings 7:26; 2 Chronicles 4:5; תַּנְחוּמִים׳כ Jeremiah 16:7 the cup offered to mourners; figurative (wine-) cup of judgement of ׳י, from which the nations, or Israel, must drink Jeremiah 49:12; Lamentations 4:21; Psalm 75:9; חֲמָתוֺ׳כ Isaiah 51:17,22; הַיַּיִן׳כ הַחֵמָה Jeremiah 25:15, compare Jeremiah 25:17; Jeremiah 25:28; הַתַּרְעֵלָה׳כ Isaiah 51:17,22; ׳כשַׁמָּה וּשְׁמָמָה Ezekiel 23:33, compare Ezekiel 23:31; Ezekiel 23:32; Ezekiel 23:33; ׳יְמִין י׳כ Habakkuk 2:16; by bold metaphor Babylon is such a cup זָהָב׳כ ׳בְּיַד י Jeremiah 51:7; so of wicked persons, fire, brimstone, and burning wind are מְנָתאכּוֺסָם Psalm 11:6 the portion of their cup; ׳כ in good sense, cup of blessing Psalm 23:5 (overflowing); מְנָת חֶלְקִי וְכוֺסִי׳י Psalm 16:5; יְשׁוּעוֺת׳כ Psalm 116:13. II. כּוֺס noun [masculine] a kind of owl (according to Vrss.; see Kn-Di Leviticus 11:17; word perhaps onomatopoetic) — unclean bird Leviticus 11:17; Deuteronomy 14:16, dwelling in ruins חֳרָבוֺת׳כִ Psalm 102:7.
I. כור (√ of following; perhaps be or make round, hence furnace, pot, basin, from shape; Arabic 
wind about (e.g. a turban), 
turn or twist (of turban), 
blacksmith's fire-place, hornet's or bees' nest, **
means also a camel's saddle (or 'howdah') with its apparatus, see Frey, Lane; 
bundle; > Thes compare Syriac 
incaluit (Lexicons aestuavit, calefactus est)).
כּוֹס pl. כֹּסוֹת f. (Jeremiah 25:15)
(1) a cup. Syr. ܟܣܳܐܳ, Chald. כּוֹסָא, כָּסָא, כּוֹזָא, [“Sam. Dan 11:1-45 Act 8:1-40 Act 8:1-40 and Act 1:1-26 Dan 2:1-49”], Arab. كَاسُ, كَأْسُ, كَوْزُ a cup full of wine. As to the etymology I have no doubt that the true origin was seen by Leberecht, a very skilful young Oriental scholar, who of late [1832] made the observation, that כּוֹס appeared to him to be contracted from כֹּנֶס, כּוֹנֶס a receptacle, a vessel, a cup, like כִּיס a purse from כֵּנֶס, according to the analogy of the nouns אִישׁ for אֵנֶשׁ, בַּיִת for בַּנֶת, בֶּנֶת, compare also שַׁיִת. Genesis 40:11, 13 Genesis 40:13, 21 Genesis 40:21; 2 Samuel 12:3; Psalms 23:5. Psalms 116:13, כּוֹס־יְשׁוּעוֹת אֶשָּׂה “I will take the cup of salvation,” i.e. I will pour out the cup of thanksgiving to Jehovah, because of aid vouchsafed. In the prophets, Jehovah is sometimes represented as making the nations drink a cup of intoxicating wine (כּוֹס הַתַּרְעֵלָה), so that they rush reeling into destruction. Isaiah 51:17, 22 Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:15, 49:12 51:7 Lamentations 4:21; Habakkuk 2:16; Ezekiel 23:31, 32 Ezekiel 23:32, 33 Ezekiel 23:33 compare Revelation 17:4 and as to the same image as used by the Arabic poets, see my Comment. on Isaiah 51:17.-Elsewhere cup is used metaphorically of lot, the image of a cup however being retained, Psalms 11:6, 16:5 compare Matthew 26:39, 20:22 and see my observations out of Arabic writers, on Isaiah 51:17, on Matt. loc. cit. in Rosenmüller’s Repertorium, i. p. 130, and in the London Classical Journal, liii. p. 159.
(2) a certain unclean bird (Leviticus 11:17 Deuter. 14:16 ), dwelling amongst ruins (Psalms 102:7). Some of the ancient translators render it night owl, but this is not supported by its etymology. Bochart more correctly (Hieroz. ii. p. 267) understands it to be the pelican, or cormorant, so called from the pouch or bag hanging from the throat; like the Lat. truo from trua.
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