Dictionaries :: Dregs

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Dregs:

(Psa 75:8; Isa 51:17,22), the lees of wine which settle at the bottom of the vessel.

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Dregs:

dregs: The "sediments," "lees," "grounds of liquor"; only in plural. In the King James Version it stands for:

(1) Hebrew qubba‘ath, "bowl," "chalice," found only in Isa 51:17,22: "the dregs of the cup of trembling"; "the dregs of the cup of my fury." the Revised Version (British and American) correctly changes "dregs" into "bowl."

(2) Hebrew shemarim, "sediments" or "dregs," especially lees of wine. "The dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring (the American Standard Revised Version "drain") them out and drink them" (Ps 75:8), i.e. God gives to the wicked the cup of wrathful judgment, which they must drink to the last drop.

King James Dictionary

Dregs: Sediment.

Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the DREGS of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. (Isaiah 51:17)