מָקוֹר maqor
Hebrew word for “fountain” · Strong’s H4726 · used 18 times in 17 verses
Meaning
1) spring, fountain; 1a) spring;
How it is translated
Glosses given for maqor in context, with how often each is used:
- fountain 10
- spring 8
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 12 (1), Leviticus 20 (1), Psalms 36 (1), Psalms 68 (1), Proverbs 5 (1), Proverbs 10 (1), Proverbs 13 (1), Proverbs 14 (1), Proverbs 16 (1), Proverbs 18 (1)
Forms
- מקור 11
- ממקר 1
- מקרה 1
- ממקור 1
- מקורך 1
- ומקור 1
- מקורה 1
- מקורו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with maqor more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- חַי chay “alive” 7
- מַי mayim “water” 4
- מַעְיָן mayan “spring” 2
- מוֹקֵשׁ moqesh “snare” 2
- חָרֵב charev “to destroy” 2
- יָבֵשׁ yavesh “to wither” 2
- מָוֶת mavet “death” 2
- צַדִּיק tsaddiq “righteous” 2
- עָזַב azav “to leave” 2
- תּוֹרָה torah “instruction” 2
- רָשָׁע rasah “wicked” 2
- סוּר sur “to turn aside” 2
Key verses
The verses using maqor that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 36:9 — For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
- Proverbs 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
- Proverbs 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
- Proverbs 13:14 — The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
- Proverbs 16:22 — Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 18:4 — The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
- Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no…
- Jeremiah 9:1 — Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Jeremiah 17:13 — O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the…
- Jeremiah 51:36 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
- 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…
- Zechariah 13:1 — In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.
See all 17 verses in the Word Atlas
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.