Mâqôwr — H4726

Definition

masculine noun

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)

1. spring, fountain
1. spring
1. of source of life, joy, purification (fig.)
2. of the eye (fig.)
3. source (of menstruous blood)
4. flow (of blood after child birth)

Usually translated as

fountain, spring, wellspring, issue, well

Origin

or mâqôr; from H6979

• Derived from Qûwr (H6979)

Greek equivalents

• éxodos (G1841)
• pēgḗ (G4077)
• rhýsis (G4511)
• hýdōr (G5204)

Occurrences

Mâqôwr occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (2), Psalms (2), Proverbs (7), Jeremiah (4), Hosea (1), Zechariah (1)

• Leviticus 12:7 — Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue (מִמְּקֹ֣ר) of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
• Leviticus 20:18 — And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain (מְקֹרָ֣הּ), and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Leviticus 20:18 — And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
• Psalms 36:9 — For with thee is the fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of life: in thy light shall we see light.
• Psalms 68:26 — Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain (מִמְּק֥וֹר) of Israel.
• Proverbs 5:18 — Let thy fountain (מְקוֹרְךָ֥) be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
• Proverbs 10:11 — The mouth of a righteous man is a well (מְק֣וֹר) of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Proverbs 13:14 — The law of the wise is a fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of life, to depart from the snares of death.
• Proverbs 14:27 — The fear of the LORD is a fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of life, to depart from the snares of death.
• Proverbs 16:22 — Understanding is a wellspring (מְק֣וֹר) of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
• Proverbs 18:4 — The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring (מְק֣וֹר) of wisdom as a flowing brook.
• Proverbs 25:26 — A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring (וּמָק֣וֹר).
• Jeremiah 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
• Jeremiah 9:1 — Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain (מְק֣וֹר) of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
• Jeremiah 17:13 — O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain (מְק֥וֹר) of living waters.
• Jeremiah 51:36 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs (מְקוֹרָֽהּ) dry.
• 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 (מְקוֹרוֹ֙) shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
• Zechariah 13:1 — In that day there shall be a fountain (מָק֣וֹר) opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.