ποτήριον

ποτήριον — potḗrion

ποτήριον, ποτηρίου, τό (diminutive of ποτήρ), a cup, a drinking vessel;

a. properly: Mat 23:25; Mat 26:27; Mar 7:4; Mar 7:8 (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); Mar 14:23; Luk 11:39; Luk 22:17; Luk 22:20; 1Co 11:25; Rev 17:4; πίνειν ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου, 1Co 11:28; τό ποτήριον τῆς ἐυλογιασς (see εὐλογία, 4), 1Co 10:16; with a genitive of the thing with which the cup is filled: ψυχροῦ, Mat 10:42; ὕδατος, Mar 9:41; by metonymy, of the container for the contained, the contents of the cup, what is offered to be drunk, Luk 22:20 b ((WH reject the passage) cf. Winer's 635f (589f)); 1Co 11:25 f; τό ποτήριον τίνος, genitive of the person giving the entertainment (cf. Rückert, Abendmahl, p. 217f): πίνειν, 1Co 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, Psa 15:5; Psa 22:5; Psa 115:13; of adversity, Psa 10:6; Psa 74:9; Isa 51:17; Isa 51:22. In the N. T. of the bitter lot (the sufferings) of Christ: Mat 26:39; Mat 26:42 Rec.; Mar 14:36; Luk 22:42; Joh 18:11; πίνειν τό ποτήριον μου or ὁ ἐγώ πίνω, to undergo the same calamities which I undergo, Mat 20:22-23; Mar 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: Rev 14:10; Rev 16:19; Rev 18:6. ((Alcaeus, Sappho), Herodotus, Ctesias, Aristophanes, Lucian, others; the Sept. for כּוס.)