Strong's #4726: maqowr (pronounced maw-kore')
or maqor {maw-kore'}; from 6979; properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny):--fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
/
mâqôr
1) spring, fountain
1a) spring
1a1) of source of life, joy, purification (figuratively)
1b) of the eye (figuratively)
1c) source (of menstruous blood)
1d) flow (of blood after child birth)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H6979
Usage:
This word is used 18 times:
Leviticus 12:7: "and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law"
Leviticus 20:18: "her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain"
Leviticus 20:18: "and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among"
Psalms 36:9: "For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light."
Psalms 68:26: "ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel."
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 14:27: "The fear of the LORD 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: "mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook."
Proverbs 25:26: "is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring."
Jeremiah 2:13: "two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns,"
Jeremiah 9:1: "were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night"
Jeremiah 17:13: "they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters."
Jeremiah 51:36: "and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry."
Hosea 13:15: "of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up:"
Zechariah 13:1: "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants"
