pothvrion pothvrion, pothrivou, tov (diminutive of pothvr), a cup, a drinking vessel; a. properly: f; ; , (T WH omit; Tr brackets the verse); ; ; ,; ; ; pivnein ejk tou' pothrivou, ; tov pothvrion th'" ejulogias" (see eujlogiva, 4), ; with a genitive of the thing with which the cup is filled: yucrou', ; u{dato", ; by metonymy, of the container for the contained, the contents of the cup, what is offered to be drunk, b ((WH reject the passage) cf. Winer's 635f (589f)); f; tov pothvrion tivno", genitive of the person giving the entertainment (cf. R?ckert, Abendmahl, p. 217f): pivnein, (cf. Winer's Grammar, 189 (178)); (cf. Winer's 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, (); (); (); of adversity, (); (); ,. In the N. T. of the bitter lot (the sufferings) of Christ: , Rec.; ; ; ; pivnein tov pothvrion mou or oJ ejgwv pivnw, to undergo the same calamities which I undergo, ,; , (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: ; ; . ((Alcaeus, Sappho), Herodotus, Ctesias (401 B. C.), Aristophanes, Lucian, others; the Septuagint for s/K.)*