מַעְיָן mayan

Hebrew word for “spring” · Strong’s H4599 · used 23 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

spring

How it is translated

Glosses given for mayan in context, with how often each is used:

• spring 12
• springs 11

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Kings 3 (2), Song of Solomon 4 (2), Genesis 7 (1), Genesis 8 (1), Leviticus 11 (1), Joshua 15 (1), Joshua 18 (1), 1 Kings 18 (1), 2 Chronicles 32 (1), Psalms 74 (1)

Forms

• מעין 9
• מעיני 3
• מעינת 2
• מעינות 2
• המעינות 1
• מעינים 1
• למעינו 1
• מעינתיך 1
• ממעיני 1
• מעינו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mayan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַי mayim “water” 14
• נַחַל nachal “torrent” 5
• סָתַם satam “to close” 3
• תְּהוֹם tehom “abyss” 3
• נֶפְתּוֹחַ nephtoach “Nephtoah” 2
• אֲרֻבָּה arubbah “window” 2
• אֲגַם agam “pool” 2
• מָקוֹר maqor “fountain” 2
• קִרְיַת יְעָרִים qiryat yearim “Kiriath-jearim” 2
• חֶלְקָה chelqah “portion” 2
• גַּן gan “garden” 2
• בָּקַע baqa “to break up/open” 2

Key verses

The verses using mayan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken…
• Joshua 15:9 — And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was…
• 1 Kings 18:5 — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules…
• 2 Kings 3:25 — And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all…
• Psalms 74:15 — Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
• Psalms 87:7 — As well the singers as the players on instruments all my springs are in thee.
• Song of Solomon 4:12 — A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
• Song of Solomon 4:15 — A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
• Isaiah 12:3 — Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
• Isaiah 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and…
• Joel 3:18 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.