מָקוֹר
ma.qor
“fountain”
Definition
properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
or מָקֹר; from H6979 (קוּר);
- spring, fountain 1a) spring 1a1) of source of life, joy, purification (fig.) 1b) of the eye (fig.) 1c) source (of menstruous blood) 1d) flow (of blood after child birth)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מָקוֹר appears 14 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Although he flourishes among his brothers,an east wind will come—a wind from the LORDrising up from the desert.His fountain will fail,and his spring will run dry.The wind will plunder his treasuryof every precious article.
“For My people have committed two evils:They have forsaken Me,the fountain of living water,and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life,turning a man from the snares of death.
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