Lexicon
קֻבַּעַת
qub.ba.at
H6907
H:N-F Hebrew

dreg

2
Occurrences
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Hebrew
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qub.ba.at denotes the residue associated with a cup of reeling and divine rage in Isaiah.

In both occurrences, the noun stands in construct with “cup” within the image of drinking the cup of reeling and rage: Jerusalem has drained it in Isaiah 51:17, and God removes it from its hand in Isaiah 51:22.

Senses in use

  1. Residue in the cup of reeling · dominant

    Both construct-form occurrences belong to the phrase concerning a cup. In Isaiah 51:17 the APB renders Jerusalem as having drunk and drained “the dreg of the cup of reeling”; in Isaiah 51:22 it renders God as taking away “the dreg of the cup of my rage.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term as “the dreg” in both verses, within a cup image. This rendering is treated as confirmation of the clause rather than a precise word-by-word equivalence.

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