Strongs Number: G4221
- Greek Word
- ποτήριον
- Transliteration
- potērion
- Phonetic
- pot-ay'-ree-on
- Part of Speech
- Noun Neuter
- Strongs Definition
-
a drinking vessel; by extension the contents thereof that is a cupful (draught); figuratively a lot or fate
- Thayers Definition
-
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
- Origin
- Neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095
- Bible Usage
- cup.