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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4599

מַעְיָן

mayanmah-yawn'

spring

23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: maʻyân

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4599is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 12 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4599

a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)

The King James renders it: fountain, spring, well.

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

mayan is rendered "spring". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:11מַעְיְנֹת֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in twelve of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 27 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a spring5
  • springs of4
  • spring of3
  • springs3
  • a spring of1
  • and a spring1
  • from springs of1
  • into spring of his1
  • spring his1
  • springs my1
  • springs your1
  • the springs1

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.

מַעְגָּלmagaltrackUses16
מַעְבָדmabadworkUses1
מַעְצָרmatsarrestraintUses1
מַעְבָּדmabadworkUses1
מַעְדֵּרmaderhoeUses1
מַעְצוֹרmatsorrestraintUses1

The words it stands beside

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • מַעְיָ֣ן3
  • מַעְיָ֥ן2
  • הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹת1
  • וּמַעְיָ֗ן1
  • לְמַעְיְנוֹ־1
  • מִמַּעַיְנֵ֖י1
  • מַעְיַן֙1
  • מַעְיַ֖ן1
  • מַעְיַ֣ן1
  • מַעְיַן־1
  • מַעְיָנ֔וֹ1
  • מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfpc
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms

Genesis

two uses
  • In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

    Genesis 7:11

    • מַעְיְנֹת֙ma'yenotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: springs of
  • The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

    Genesis 8:2

    • מַעְיְנֹ֣תma'yenotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: springs of

Leviticus

one use
  • Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

    Leviticus 11:36

    • מַעְיָ֥ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring

Joshua

two uses
  • From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

    Joshua 15:9

    • מַעְיַן֙ma'yannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: spring of
  • On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.

    Joshua 18:15

    • מַעְיַ֖ןma'yannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: spring of

1 Kings

one use
  • Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

    1 Kings 18:5

    • מַעְיְנֵ֣יma'yeneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: springs of

2 Kings

two uses
  • And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”

    2 Kings 3:19

    • מַעְיְנֵי־ma'yenei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: springs of
  • They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

    2 Kings 3:25

    • מַעְיַן־ma'yan-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: spring of

2 Chronicles

one use
  • Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

    2 Chronicles 32:4

    • הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹתhama'yanotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the springs

Psalms

five uses
  • You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

    Psalms 74:15

    • מַעְיָ֣ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring
  • As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

    Psalms 84:6

    • מַעְיָ֣ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring
  • Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”

    Psalms 87:7

    • מַעְיָנַ֥יma'yanainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: springs my
  • He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

    Psalms 104:10

    • מַ֭עְיָנִיםma'yanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: springs
  • who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

    Psalms 114:8

    • לְמַעְיְנוֹ־lema'yenov-preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: into spring of his

Proverbs

three uses
  • Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

    Proverbs 5:16

    • מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָma'yenoteikhanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: springs your
  • When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

    Proverbs 8:24

    • מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹתma'yanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: springs
  • Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

    Proverbs 25:26

    • מַעְיָ֣ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring

Song of Solomon

two uses
  • My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

    Song of Solomon 4:12

    • מַעְיָ֥ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring
  • You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

    Song of Solomon 4:15

    • מַעְיַ֣ןma'yannoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a spring of

Isaiah

two uses
  • With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

    Isaiah 12:3

    • מִמַּעַיְנֵ֖יmimaayneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from springs of
  • I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

    Isaiah 41:18

    • מַעְיָנ֑וֹתma'yanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: springs

Hosea

one use
  • Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

    Hosea 13:15

    • מַעְיָנ֔וֹma'yanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: spring his

Joel

one use
  • And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

    Joel 3:18

    • וּמַעְיָ֗ןuma'yanconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a spring

The letters

Gematria 170· 820 mispar gadol

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.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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