מַעְיָן
ma.yan
“spring”
Definition
a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
or מַעְיְנוֹ; (Psalm 114:8), or (feminine) מַעְיָנָה; from H5869 (עַיִן) (as a denominative in the sense of a spring);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מַעְיָן appears 21 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
I will open rivers on the barren heights,and fountains in the middle of the valleys.I will turn the desert into a pool of water,and the dry land into flowing springs.
Like a muddied spring or a polluted wellis a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
who turned the rock into a pool,the flint into a fountain of water!
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