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(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Strong’s
H1750, H4002, H4599, H4726, H5033, H5539, H5875, H5883, H5886, G1080, H4161, H5042, H0794
Hebrew
דּוּץ · dûwts
Greek
γεννάω · gennáō

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מָקוֹר

H4726
Transliteration
mâqôwr
Pronunciation
maw-kore'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
18

Glosses

spring, fountain, well, fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).

Lexicon definition

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)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

γεννάω

G1080
Transliteration
gennáō
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
97

Glosses

bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring

Lexicon definition

to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother)

figuratively, to regenerate

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מוֹצָא

H4161
Transliteration
môwtsâʼ
Pronunciation
mo-tsaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
27

Glosses

place, act of going forth, issue, export, source, spring, brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-) course (springs).

Lexicon definition

a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit

hence, a source or product

specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)

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נָבַע

H5042
Transliteration
nâbaʻ
Pronunciation
naw-bah'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
11

Glosses

flow, spring, bubble up, belch out, flowing, pour out, send forth, utter (abundantly).

Lexicon definition

to gush forth

figuratively, to utter (good or bad words)

specifically, to emit (a foul odor)

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Spring

(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "well" (q.v.). "Springs" mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. ashdoth) should rather be "declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Spring

Indexed occurrences: 62

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Springs

Indexed occurrences: 38

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All Scripture references167 references

Genesis 14

Genesis 2:6Genesis 7:11Genesis 8:2Genesis 8:22Genesis 16:7Genesis 24:13Genesis 24:16Genesis 24:29Genesis 24:30Genesis 24:42Genesis 24:43Genesis 24:45Genesis 36:24Genesis 49:22

Exodus 1

Exodus 15:27

Leviticus 3

Leviticus 11:36Leviticus 12:7Leviticus 20:18

Numbers 4

Numbers 21:17Numbers 30:13Numbers 33:2Numbers 33:9

Deuteronomy 4

Deuteronomy 8:3Deuteronomy 8:7Deuteronomy 11:14Deuteronomy 23:24

Joshua 5

Joshua 15:7Joshua 15:9Joshua 15:19Joshua 18:15Joshua 18:16

Judges 3

Judges 1:15Judges 7:1Judges 15:19

1 Samuel 1

1 Samuel 29:1

2 Samuel 3

2 Samuel 3:252 Samuel 11:12 Samuel 17:17

1 Kings 5

1 Kings 1:91 Kings 10:281 Kings 18:51 Kings 20:221 Kings 20:26

2 Kings 6

2 Kings 2:212 Kings 3:192 Kings 3:252 Kings 13:202 Kings 19:262 Kings 19:29

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 20:1

2 Chronicles 6

2 Chronicles 1:162 Chronicles 24:232 Chronicles 32:32 Chronicles 32:42 Chronicles 32:302 Chronicles 36:10

Job 9

Job 5:6Job 6:10Job 8:19Job 28:1Job 29:23Job 38:16Job 38:27Job 40:15Job 41:14

Psalms 23

Psalms 19:3Psalms 19:7Psalms 36:10Psalms 59:8Psalms 65:9Psalms 68:27Psalms 72:6Psalms 74:15Psalms 75:7Psalms 78:2Psalms 84:6Psalms 84:7Psalms 87:7Psalms 89:35Psalms 90:6Psalms 94:4Psalms 104:10Psalms 104:12Psalms 107:33Psalms 107:35Psalms 114:8Psalms 119:171Psalms 145:7

Proverbs 15

Proverbs 1:23Proverbs 4:23Proverbs 5:16Proverbs 5:18Proverbs 8:24Proverbs 10:11Proverbs 13:14Proverbs 14:27Proverbs 15:2Proverbs 15:28Proverbs 16:15Proverbs 16:22Proverbs 18:4Proverbs 25:26Proverbs 27:25

Ecclesiastes 4

Ecclesiastes 4:4Ecclesiastes 10:1Ecclesiastes 12:5Ecclesiastes 12:6

Song of Solomon 3

Song of Solomon 2:11Song of Solomon 4:12Song of Solomon 4:15

Isaiah 13

Isaiah 11:1Isaiah 12:3Isaiah 14:29Isaiah 34:1Isaiah 35:7Isaiah 37:30Isaiah 41:18Isaiah 42:9Isaiah 45:8Isaiah 49:10Isaiah 55:13Isaiah 58:11Isaiah 61:11

Jeremiah 8

Jeremiah 2:13Jeremiah 3:3Jeremiah 5:24Jeremiah 8:23Jeremiah 9:1Jeremiah 17:13Jeremiah 17:16Jeremiah 51:36

Ezekiel 5

Ezekiel 12:4Ezekiel 31:4Ezekiel 42:11Ezekiel 43:11Ezekiel 44:5

Daniel 1

Daniel 9:25

Hosea 3

Hosea 6:3Hosea 10:4Hosea 13:15

Joel 2

Joel 2:23Joel 3:18

Amos 2

Amos 3:5Amos 7:1

Zechariah 1

Zechariah 13:1

Matthew 1

Matthew 4:4

Luke 2

Luke 12:28Luke 21:34

John 3

John 1:12John 3:3John 3:5

Acts 2

Acts 3:21Acts 28:16

Titus 1

Titus 3:5

Hebrews 1

Hebrews 12:15

James 3

James 3:11James 3:12James 5:7

2 Peter 1

2 Peter 2:17

1 John 2

1 John 2:291 John 3:14

Revelation 5

Revelation 7:17Revelation 8:10Revelation 14:7Revelation 16:4Revelation 21:6

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Matthew 4:4

Yeshua directly quotes Deuteronomy in response to the wilderness temptation.

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Ancient Context3 items

Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten.

Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 10

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

Concerning The Ten Plagues Which Came Upon The Egyptians.

Antiquities Book 2, Chapter 14

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Josephus Antiquities Whiston

How Alexandra By Gaining The Good-Will Of The Pharisees, Retained The Kingdom Nine Years, And Then, Having Done Many Glorious Actions Died.

Antiquities Book 13, Chapter 16

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HOT SPRINGS

Nave’s Topical Bible references for HOT SPRINGS.

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SPRING

Nave’s Topical Bible references for SPRING.

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Ashdoth-pisgah

(Deut. 3:17; Josh. 12:3; 13:20) in Authorized Version, but in Revised Version translated "slopes of Pisgah." In Deut. 4:49 it is translated in the Authorized Version "springs of Pisgah." The name Ashdoth is translated "springs" in the Authorized Version, but "slopes" in the Revised Version, of Josh. 10:40 and 12:8. It has been identified with the springs under Mount Nebo, now called Ayun Musa.

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Cistern

The rendering of a Hebrew word bor, which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it; distinguished from beer, which denotes a place where water rises on the spot (Jer. 2:13; Prov. 5:15; Isa. 36:16), a fountain. Cisterns are frequently mentioned in Scripture. The scarcity of springs in Palestine made it necessary to collect rain-water in reservoirs and cisterns (Num. 21:22). (See [117]WELL.) Empty cisterns were sometimes used as prisons (Jer. 38:6; Lam. 3:53; Ps. 40:2; 69:15). The "pit" into which Joseph was cast (Gen. 37:24) was a beer or dry well. There are numerous remains of ancient cisterns in all parts of Palestine.

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Colossians, Epistle to the

Was written by Paul at Rome during his first imprisonment there (Acts 28:16, 30), probably in the spring of A.D. 57, or, as some think, 62, and soon after he had written his Epistle to the Ephesians. Like some of his other epistles (e.g., those to Corinth), this seems to have been written in consequence of information which had somehow been conveyed to him of the internal state of the church there (Col. 1:4-8). Its object was to counteract false teaching. A large part of it is directed against certain speculatists who attempted to combine the doctrines of Oriental mysticism and asceticism with Christianity, thereby promising the disciples the enjoyment of a higher spiritual life and a deeper insight into the world of spirits. Paul argues against such teaching, showing that in Christ Jesus they had all things. He sets forth the majesty of his redemption. The mention of the "new moon" and "sabbath days" (2:16) shows also that there were here Judaizing teachers who sought to draw away the disciples from the simplicity of the gospel. Like most of Paul's epistles, this consists of two parts, a doctrinal and a practical. (1.) The doctrinal part comprises the first two chapters. His main theme is developed in chapter 2. He warns them against being drawn away from Him in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead, and who was the head of all spiritual powers. Christ was the head of the body of which they were members; and if they were truly united to him, what needed they more? (2.) The practical part of the epistle (3-4) enforces various duties naturally flowing from the doctrines expounded. They are exhorted to mind things that are above (3:1-4), to mortify every evil principle of their nature, and to put on the new man (3:5-14). Many special duties of the Christian life are also insisted upon as the fitting evidence of the Christian character. Tychicus was the bearer of the letter, as he was also of that to the Ephesians and to Philemon, and he would tell them of the state of the apostle (4:7-9). After friendly greetings (10-14), he bids them interchange this letter with that he had sent to the neighbouring church of Laodicea. He then closes this brief but striking epistle with his usual autograph salutation. There is a remarkable resemblance between this epistle and that to the Ephesians (q.v.). The genuineness of this epistle has not been called in question.

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Fountain of the Virgin

The perennial source from which the Pool of Siloam (q.v.) is supplied, the waters flowing in a copious stream to it through a tunnel cut through the rock, the actual length of which is 1,750 feet. The spring rises in a cave 20 feet by 7. A serpentine tunnel 67 feet long runs from it toward the left, off which the tunnel to the Pool of Siloam branches. It is the only unfailing fountain in Jerusalem. The fountain received its name from the "fantastic legend" that here the virgin washed the swaddling-clothes of our Lord. This spring has the singular characteristic of being intermittent, flowing from three to five times daily in winter, twice daily in summer, and only once daily in autumn. This peculiarity is accounted for by the supposition that the outlet from the reservoir is by a passage in the form of a siphon.

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Fountain

(Heb. ain; i.e., "eye" of the water desert), a natural source of living water. Palestine was a "land of brooks of water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of valleys and hills" (Deut. 8:7; 11:11). These fountains, bright sparkling "eyes" of the desert, are remarkable for their abundance and their beauty, especially on the west of Jordan. All the perennial rivers and streams of the country are supplied from fountains, and depend comparatively little on surface water. "Palestine is a country of mountains and hills, and it abounds in fountains of water. The murmur of these waters is heard in every dell, and the luxuriant foliage which surrounds them is seen in every plain." Besides its rain-water, its cisterns and fountains, Jerusalem had also an abundant supply of water in the magnificent reservoir called "Solomon's Pools" (q.v.), at the head of the Urtas valley, whence it was conveyed to the city by subterrean channels some 10 miles in length. These have all been long ago destroyed, so that no water from the "Pools" now reaches Jerusalem. Only one fountain has been discovered at Jerusalem, the so-called "Virgins's Fountains," in the valley of Kidron; and only one well (Heb. beer), the Bir Eyub, also in the valley of Kidron, south of the King's Gardens, which has been dug through the solid rock. The inhabitants of Jerusalem are now mainly dependent on the winter rains, which they store in cisterns. (See [221]WELL.)

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Grass

(1.) Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Ps. 104:14). As the herbage rapidly fades under the scorching sun, it is used as an image of the brevity of human life (Isa. 40:6, 7; Ps. 90:5). In Num. 11:5 this word is rendered "leeks." (2.) Heb. deshe', green grass (Gen. 1:11, 12; Isa. 66:14; Deut. 32:2). "The sickly and forced blades of grass which spring up on the flat plastered roofs of houses in the East are used as an emblem of speedy destruction, because they are small and weak, and because, under the scorching rays of the sun, they soon wither away" (2 Kings 19:26; Ps. 129:6; Isa. 37:27). The dry stalks of grass were often used as fuel for the oven (Matt. 6:30; 13:30; Luke 12:28).

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Hammath

Warm springs, one of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a little to the south of Tiberias under the name of Hummam Tabariyeh ("Bath of Tiberias").

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Hammoth-dor

Warm springs, a Levitical city of Naphtali (Josh. 21:32); probably Hammath in 19:35.

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Jezreel, Fountain of

Where Saul encamped before the battle of Gilboa (1 Sam. 29:1). In the valley under Zerin there are two considerable springs, one of which, perhaps that here referred to, "flows from under a sort of cavern in the wall of conglomerate rock which here forms the base of Gilboa. The water is excellent; and issuing from crevices in the rocks, it spreads out at once into a fine limpid pool forty or fifty feet in diameter, full of fish" (Robinson). This may be identical with the "well of Harod" (Judg. 7:1; comp. 2 Sam. 23:25), probably the Ain Jalud, i.e., the "spring of Goliath."

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Lasha

Fissure, a place apparently east of the Dead Sea (Gen. 10:19). It was afterwards known as Callirhoe, a place famous for its hot springs.

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Nephtoah

Opened, a fountain and a stream issuing from it on the border between Judah and Benjamin (Josh. 15:8, 9; 18:15). It has been identified with Ain Lifta, a spring about 2 1/2 miles north-west of Jerusalem. Others, however, have identified it with Ain' Atan, on the south-west of Bethlehem, whence water is conveyed through "Pilate's aqueduct" to the Haram area at Jerusalem.

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Pools of Solomon

The name given to three large open cisterns at Etam, at the head of the Wady Urtas, having an average length of 400 feet by 220 in breadth, and 20 to 30 in depth. These pools derive their chief supply of water from a spring called "the sealed fountain," about 200 yards to the north-west of the upper pool, to which it is conveyed by a large subterranean passage. They are 150 feet distant from each other, and each pool is 20 feet lower than that above it, the conduits being so arranged that the lowest, which is the largest and finest of the three, is filled first, and then in succession the others. It has been estimated that these pools cover in all a space of about 7 acres, and are capable of containing three million gallons of water. They were, as is generally supposed, constructed in the days of Solomon. They are probably referred to in Eccles. 2:6. On the fourth day after his victory over the Ammonites, etc., in the wilderness of Tekoa, Jehoshaphat assembled his army in the valley of Berachah ("blessing"), and there blessed the Lord. Berachah has been identified with the modern Bereikut, some 5 miles south of Wady Urtas, and hence the "valley of Berachah" may be this valley of pools, for the word means both "blessing" and "pools;" and it has been supposed, therefore, that this victory was celebrated beside Solomon's pools (2 Chr. 20:26). These pools were primarily designed to supply Jerusalem with water. From the lower pool an aqueduct has been traced conveying the water through Bethlehem and across the valley of Gihon, and along the west slope of the Tyropoeon valley, till it finds its way into the great cisterns underneath the temple hill. The water, however, from the pools reaches now only to Bethlehem. The aqueduct beyond this has been destroyed.

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Regeneration

Only found in Matt. 19:28 and Titus 3:5. This word literally means a "new birth." The Greek word so rendered (palingenesia) is used by classical writers with reference to the changes produced by the return of spring. In Matt. 19:28 the word is equivalent to the "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21). In Titus 3:5 it denotes that change of heart elsewhere spoken of as a passing from death to life (1 John 3:14); becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus (2 Cor. 5:17); being born again (John 3:5); a renewal of the mind (Rom. 12:2); a resurrection from the dead (Eph. 2:6); a being quickened (2:1, 5). This change is ascribed to the Holy Spirit. It originates not with man but with God (John 1:12, 13; 1 John 2:29; 5:1, 4). As to the nature of the change, it consists in the implanting of a new principle or disposition in the soul; the impartation of spiritual life to those who are by nature "dead in trespasses and sins." The necessity of such a change is emphatically affirmed in Scripture (John 3:3; Rom. 7:18; 8:7-9; 1 Cor. 2:14; Eph. 2:1; 4:21-24).

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Sibbechai

bough; cottage; of springs

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Snare

The expression (Amos 3:5), "Shall one take up a snare from the earth?" etc. (Authorized Version), ought to be, as in the Revised Version, "Shall a snare spring up from the ground?" etc. (See [598]GIN.)

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Spring

(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "well" (q.v.). "Springs" mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. ashdoth) should rather be "declivities" or "slopes" (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.

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Swallow

(1.) Heb. sis (Isa. 38:14; Jer. 8:7), the Arabic for the swift, which "is a regular migrant, returning in myriads every spring, and so suddenly that while one day not a swift can be seen in the country, on the next they have overspread the whole land, and fill the air with their shrill cry." The swift (cypselus) is ordinarily classed with the swallow, which it resembles in its flight, habits, and migration. (2.) Heb. deror, i.e., "the bird of freedom" (Ps. 84:3; Prov. 26:2), properly rendered swallow, distinguished for its swiftness of flight, its love of freedom, and the impossibility of retaining it in captivity. In Isa. 38:14 and Jer. 8:7 the word thus rendered (augr) properly means "crane" (as in the R.V.).

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Tamarisk

Heb. eshel (Gen. 21:33; 1 Sam. 22:6; 31:13, in the R.V.; but in A.V., "grove," "tree"); Arab. asal. Seven species of this tree are found in Palestine. It is a "very graceful tree, with long feathery branches and tufts closely clad with the minutest of leaves, and surmounted in spring with spikes of beautiful pink blosoms, which seem to envelop the whole tree in one gauzy sheet of colour" (Tristram's Nat. Hist.).

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