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Except for one other reference in the book of Jeremiah, the meaning of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gavi\u2019a<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a special sort of wine cup is found only here. In the Book of Exodus, as part of the description of the design of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>menorah<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(chapter 25), there the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gvi\u2019im<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are elements of the candelabrum, reminiscent of a flower\u2019s calyx, a cup-shaped part where the petals join together.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While English has a rather rich vocabulary for drinking vessels &#8211; goblet, chalice, flagon, tankard, grail, to name a few &#8211; Hebrew has mainly this <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gavi\u2019a<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So the Holy Grail is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>hagavi\u2019a hakadosh<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(in Monty Python as well)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and not sure how they subtitled the famous sequence in Danny Kaye\u2019s \u201cThe Court Jester\u201d where they had to distinguish between \u201cthe chalice\u201d (from the palace), \u201cthe flagon\u201d (with the dragon), and \u201cthe vessel\u201d (with the pestle). Well, Kaye couldn\u2019t keep them straight either. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, today, the World Cup (in soccer\/football) is <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gavi\u2019a ha\u2019olam<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as the illustration by artist Zeev Engelmeyer shows. 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