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.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Cupboard
(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 (1Ma_15:32).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.