Strong's #5421: phrear (pronounced freh'-ar)

of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):--well, pit.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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phrear

1) a well

2) the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: of uncertain derivation

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Luke 14:5: "an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out"
John 4:11: "to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then"
John 4:12: "gave us the well, and drank thereof"
Revelation 9:1: "key of the bottomless pit."
Revelation 9:2: "he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of"
Revelation 9:2: "a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace;"
Revelation 9:2: "the smoke of the pit."