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
Part of Speech: noun neuter
Citing in TDNT: 6:148, 841
G4221
Neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095; a drinking vessel; by extension the contents thereof, that is, a cupful (draught); figuratively a lot or fate: - cup.
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cup | 6.121 |
(πίνω ποτήριον) suffer severely | 24.81 |
(παραφέρω τὸ ποτήριον ἀπό) cause not to experience | 90.97 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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