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 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מַעְיָ֣ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring
Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
- 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.
- מַ֭עְיָנִיםma'yanimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: springs
who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
- 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?
- 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.
- מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹתma'yanotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: springs
Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
- 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.
- מַעְיָ֥ןma'yannoun · masculine singulartagged: a spring
You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
