Greek noun (neuter) · G5421
φρέαρ
phrearfreh'-ar
well/abyss
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: phréar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5421is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5421
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)
The King James renders it: well, pit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
phrear is rendered "well/abyss". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in Revelation, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 14:5And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
Luke 14:5φρέαρ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's seven uses are in Revelation.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- pit4
- well2
- a pit1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- φρέαρ4
- φρέατος3
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular3N-ASN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular3N-GSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Luke
one use
And He asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
- φρέαρphrearnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a pit
John
two uses
“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
- φρέαρphrearnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: well
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”
- φρέαρphrearnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: well
Revelation
four uses
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to earth, and it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
- φρέατοςphreatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: pit
The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
- φρέαρphrearnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: pit
- φρέατοςphreatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: pit
- φρέατοςphreatosnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: pit
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.