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Strong's #4599: ma`yan (pronounced mah-yawn')

or ma ynow (Psa. 114:8) {mah-yen-o'}; or (feminine) ma yanah {mah-yaw-naw'}; from 5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring); a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction):--fountain, spring, well.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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ma‛yân / ma‛yenô / ma‛yânâh

1) spring

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring)



Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Genesis 7:11: "of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up,"
Genesis 8:2: " The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven"
Leviticus 11:36: "Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth"
Joshua 15:9: "from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out"
Joshua 18:15: "went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah."
1 Kings 18:5: "into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks:"
2 Kings 3:19: "tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good"
2 Kings 3:25: "and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land,"
Psalms 74:15: "Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers."
Psalms 84:6: "through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools."
Psalms 87:7: "As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs"
Psalms 104:10: "He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills."
Psalms 114:8: "into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters."
Proverbs 5:16: " Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets."
Proverbs 8:24: "depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water."
Proverbs 25:26: "before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring."
Song of Solomon 4:12: "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: "rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness"
Hosea 13:15: "from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil"
Joel 3:18: "of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD,"









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