πηγή
fountain
‘fountain’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G4077 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Peter
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“fountain” is the headline sense of the Greek noun πηγη (pēgḗ). More than half of its appearances fall in Revelation. The Greek New Testament uses it across 10 verses — uncommon. First canonically at Mark 5:29, it enters the text early. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 10-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4077 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Revelation 5 verses 50%
- John 2 verses 20%
- Mark 1 verse 10%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Johannine 7 verses · 70%
- Revelation 5 verses · 50%
- Gospels 3 verses · 30%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fountain 4×, Fountains 4×, Well 3×
- American Standard Version: Fountains 4×, Fountain 3×, Well 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Springs 5×, Spring 2×, Well 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Springs 5×, Spring 2×, Well 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4077 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4077 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4077 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4077 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- fountain, spring
- a well fed by a spring
Word origin
Derived from πηγνυμι (pḗgnymi) (G4078) — to fasten.
Probably from G4078 (through the idea of gushing plumply); a fount (literally or figuratively) that is source or supply (of water blood enjoyment) (not necessarily the original spring): - fountain well.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G4077 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πηγὰς pēgàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Revelation 7:17 | 4 |
| πηγὴ pēgḕ | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Mark 5:29 | 4 |
| πηγαὶ pēgaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Feminine | 2 Peter 2:17 | 1 |
| πηγῆς pēgē̂s | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Revelation 21:6 | 1 |
| πηγῇ pēgē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | John 4:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4077, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- παγις pagís G3803 snare
- παχυνω pachýnō G3975 to make fat
- πηγανον pḗganon G4076 rue
- πικρος pikrós G4089 bitter
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πηγη appears 80 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 78 verses in 23 books.
- 80
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 78
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 2:6 πηγή
- Exodus 15:27 πηγή
- Leviticus 11:36 πηγή
- Numbers 33:9 πηγή
- Deuteronomy 8:7 πηγή
- Joshua 15:7 πηγή
- Judges 7:1 πηγή
- 2 Samuel 17:17 πηγή
- 1 Kings 1:9 πηγή
- 2 Kings 3:19 πηγή
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 πηγή
- Ezra 12:13 πηγή
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4077) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 78. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 2:6 πηγή but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- Genesis 7:11 πηγή 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.
- Genesis 8:2 πηγή The deep's fountains and the sky's windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
- Genesis 14:7 πηγή They returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that lived in Hazazon Tamar.
- Genesis 16:7 πηγή The angel of Yahweh found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
- Genesis 24:13 πηγή Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:16 πηγή The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 24:29 πηγή Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
- Genesis 24:30 πηγή It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
- Genesis 24:42 πηγή I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.
- Genesis 24:43 πηγή Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.
- Genesis 24:45 πηγή Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
- Exodus 15:27 πηγή They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
- Leviticus 11:36 πηγή Nevertheless a spring or a cistern in which water is a gathered shall be clean: but that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
- Leviticus 12:7 πηγή and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her blood. "'This is the law for her who bears, whether a male or a female.
- Leviticus 20:18 πηγή "'If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
- Numbers 33:9 πηγή They traveled from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamped there.
- Numbers 34:11 πηγή and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
- Deuteronomy 8:7 πηγή For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
- Deuteronomy 8:15 πηγή who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Deuteronomy 33:13 πηγή Of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, For the deep that couches beneath,
- Joshua 15:7 πηγή and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at En Rogel;
- Joshua 15:9 πηγή 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);
- Joshua 17:7 πηγή The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.
- Joshua 18:15 πηγή The south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;
- Joshua 18:16 πηγή and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel;
- Joshua 18:17 πηγή and it extended northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
- Joshua 19:29 πηγή and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out of it were at the sea by the region of Achzib;
- Joshua 19:37 πηγή and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor,
- Joshua 21:29 πηγή Jarmuth with its suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
- Judges 7:1 πηγή Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
- Judges 15:19 πηγή But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name of it was called En Hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
- 2 Samuel 17:17 πηγή Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a maid-servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come into the city.
- 1 Kings 1:9 πηγή Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:
- 1 Kings 18:5 πηγή 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.
- 2 Kings 3:19 πηγή 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.
- 2 Kings 3:25 πηγή They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth [only] they left the stones of it; however the men armed with slings went about it, and struck it.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 πηγή he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 πηγή 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?
- Ezra 12:13 πηγή
- Job 38:16 πηγή "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?
- Psalms 17:16 πηγή
- Psalms 35:10 πηγή All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?"
- Psalms 41:2 πηγή Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the earth, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
- Psalms 67:27 πηγή
- Psalms 73:15 πηγή If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
- Psalms 103:10 πηγή He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor repaid us for our iniquities.
- Psalms 113:8 πηγή That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
- Proverbs 4:21 πηγή Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
- Proverbs 5:15 πηγή Drink water out of your own cistern, Running water out of your own well.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4077) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
