Occurrences
Maʻyân occurs 23 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Leviticus (1), Joshua (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (1), Psalms (5), Proverbs (3), Song of Songs (2), Isaiah (2), Hosea (1), Joel (1)
- Genesis 7:11 — In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains (מַעְיְנֹת֙) of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
- Genesis 8:2 — The fountains (מַעְיְנֹ֣ת) also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Leviticus 11:36 — Nevertheless a fountain (מַעְיָ֥ן) or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
- Joshua 15:9 — And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain (מַעְיַן֙) of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim:
- Joshua 18:15 — And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well (מַעְיַ֖ן) of waters of Nephtoah:
- 1 Kings 18:5 — And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains (מַעְיְנֵ֣י) of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
- 2 Kings 3:19 — And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells (מַעְיְנֵי) of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
- 2 Kings 3:25 — And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells (מַעְיַן) of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 — So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains (הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹת), and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
- Psalms 74:15 — Thou didst cleave the fountain (מַעְיָ֣ן) and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
- Psalms 84:6 — Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well (מַעְיָ֣ן); the rain also filleth the pools.
- Psalms 87:7 — As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs (מַעְיָנַ֥י) are in thee.
- Psalms 104:10 — He sendeth the springs (מַ֭עְיָנִים) into the valleys, which run among the hills.
- Psalms 114:8 — Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain (לְמַעְיְנוֹ) of waters.
- Proverbs 5:16 — Let thy fountains (מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ) be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
- Proverbs 8:24 — When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains (מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת) abounding with water.
- Proverbs 25:26 — A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain (מַעְיָ֣ן), and a corrupt spring.
- Song of Songs 4:12 — A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain (מַעְיָ֥ן) sealed.
- Song of Songs 4:15 — A fountain (מַעְיַ֣ן) of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
- Isaiah 12:3 — Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells (מִמַּעַיְנֵ֖י) of salvation.
- Isaiah 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains (מַעְיָנ֑וֹת) in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Hosea 13:15 — Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain (מַעְיָנ֔וֹ) shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
- Joel 3:18 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain (וּמַעְיָ֗ן) shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.