1)

What is the significance of the three times that the word "Kos" is mentioned in the chief butler's dream?

1.

Chulin 92a: They represent the three cups of punishment that Pharaoh (Egypt) is going to drink - one in the days of Moshe, one in the days of Pharaoh Necho, 1 and one together with all the Nochrim.

2.

Rashi (to Pesachim 108a): The three in the current Pasuk correspond to the three [extra] cups in the Pesach Seder - of Kidush, the Hagadah, and Hallel. (The fourth cup is the usual cup for Birkas ha'Mazon. 2 )

1

Rashi (loc. cit.): In the days of Nevuchadnetzar; see Torah Temimah, note 5.

2

See Torah Temimah 6, who cites a Yerushalmi that presents sources for all four cups (not just three of them).

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