מַעְיָן
maʻyân
Meaning
“spring”
BDB spring
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12 books · uncommon
Hebrew Bible
First appears: Genesis 7:11
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מַעְיָן
8 books
Genesis 7:11
מַעְיְנֹת֙
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
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Joshua 15:9
מַעְיַן֙
and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim);
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1 Kings 18:5
מַעְיְנֵ֣י
Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the springs of water, and to all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we not lose all the animals.
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2 Kings 3:19
מַעְיְנֵי
You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
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2 Chronicles 32:4
הַ/מַּעְיָנ֔וֹת
So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
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Isaiah 12:3
מִ/מַּעַיְנֵ֖י
Therefore with joy you shall draw water out of the wells of salvation.
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Hosea 13:15
מַעְיָנ֔/וֹ
Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, The breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; And his spring will become dry, And his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.
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Joel 3:18
וּ/מַעְיָ֗ן
It will happen in that day, That the mountains will drop down sweet wine, The hills will flow with milk, All the brooks of Judah will flow with waters; And a fountain will come forth from the house of Yahweh, And will water the valley of Shittim.
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