Strong's Definition
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to hold together;
KJV Usage: cup, (small) owl. Compare H3599 (כִּיס).
TWOT Reference: 965,966
Outline of Biblical Usage
n f
1) cup
n m
2) a kind of owl (an unclean bird)
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
כּוֹס
kôs
BDB Definition:
1) cup (noun feminine)
2) a kind of owl (an unclean bird) (noun masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to hold together
Same Word by TWOT Number: 965, 966
Total KJV Occurrences: 35