G4221 – poterion – ποτήριον – cup
- Strong’s ID:
- G4221
- Greek Word:
- ποτήριον
- Transliteration:
- poterion
- Pronunciation:
- pot-ay’-ree-on
- Part of Speech:
- noun neuter
- Usage Count:
- 33
- Search:
- Find “poterion” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095; a drinking-vessel; by extension, the contents thereof, i.e. a cupful (draught); figuratively, a lot or fate:—cup.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a cup, a drinking vessel
2) metaphorically 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
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.