cup, (small) owl

“Cup” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(coop, tub). A drinking vessel of various designs, made of horn, clay, or metal (Gen. 44:2; 1 Sam. 16:13; 1 Kings 7:26). Used figuratively (Psa. 23:5; Isa. 51:17; Rev. 14:10; Matt. 20:22; 26:39).

“Owl” From Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(howl). An unclean bird and type of desolation. Five species found in Palestine (Lev. 11:17; Deut. 14:16; Psa. 102:6; Isa. 34:11-15).

“Cup” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

Various Hebrew words are so translated, having regard to the different uses to which the cup was put. It is frequently used for that which the cup contains, causing either joy or sorrow, as “I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord” (Psa. 116:13). “In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red....the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them” (Psa. 75:8; compare Rev. 14:10; Rev. 16:19). And so in many other instances; and especially in that of the cup of which the Lord Jesus drank when bearing sin (Matt. 26:27,39,42; John 18:11). In the Lord’s Supper the “cup” is put for the wine which was an emblem of the blood of Christ (1 Cor. 10:16,21; 1 Cor. 11:25-28).

“Cup-Bearer” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

Another name for “butler,” who presented the cup to the king, and was responsible to see that there was nothing injurious in it (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chron. 9:4; Neh. 1:11).

“Owl” From Concise Bible Dictionary:

In the passages that speak of the unclean birds “the owl....the little owl....and the great owl,” are enumerated (Lev. 11:16-17; Deut. 14:15-16). The Hebrew for the first is bath yaanah. (See Ostrich.) The second is kos: it occurs in the above two passages and in Psalm 102:6; and doubtless refers to the owl. The third, yanshuph, occurs also in Isaiah 34:11. This in the LXX and Vulgate is the “ibis,” and has been supposed by some to refer to the Ibis religiosa, a sacred bird of Egypt. There is also lilith in Isaiah 34:14 only, translated “screech owl” (margin and RV, “nightmonster”); its reference is doubtful. Also qippoz in Isaiah 34:15 only, “great owl,” (RV, “arrowsnake”; LXX and Vulgate “hedgehog,” reading perhaps qippod with six Hebrew MSS.) There are several well-known species of the owl, but to which of them these various words refer cannot be specified with certainty. The Athene meridionalis is the owl most common in Palestine; the Strix flammea is the white owl.
Athene Noctua – The Little Owl (commonly found in Israel).
Tyto Alba – The Barn Owl (also commonly found in Israel).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Transliteration:
kowc
Phonic:
koce
Meaning:
from an unused root meaning to hold together; 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)
KJV Usage:
cup, (small) owl. Compare 3599