- Transliteration: Poterion

- Phonetic: pot-ay'-ree-on

- Definition:

1. a cup, a drinking vessel

2. metaph. 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

- Origin: of a derivative of the alternate of G4095" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4095

- TDNT entry: 08:28,8

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Neuter of a derivative of the alternate of G4095" class="dictionary-topic-link">G4095; a drinking vessel; by extension the contents thereof that is a cupful (draught); figuratively a lot or fate: - cup.