Cupboard
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.
(2): (n.) A board or shelf for cups and dishes.
(3): (v. t.) To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Cupboard ( 1Ma 15:32 ). A sideboard used for the display of gold and silver plate. This is the earliest meaning of ‘cupboard’; cf. Greene (1592), ‘Her mistress … set all her plate on the cubboorde for shew.’
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
kub´ẽrd ( κυλίκιον , kulı́kion , 1 Macc 15:32): A kind of sideboard in or on which Simon's gold and silver vessels were displayed, and which, among other evidences of his glory, amazed the Syrian envoy Athenobius. Compare the Roman abacus , said to have been introduced into Rome from Asia.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( Κυλικεῖον ), a place of deposit for vases, dishes, etc. (so Athen. Deipn . xi, c. 2, p. 48; Zonaras, Lex . col. 1268), e.g. for the royal plate ( 1 Maccabees 15:32).
