מַבּוּעַ
mabbûwaʻ · H4002 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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spring
A place where water wells up from an underground source
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;
Isaiah 35:7 The scorched land will become a pool And the thirsty ground springs of water; In the haunt of jackals, its resting place, Grass becomes reeds and rushes.
Isaiah 49:10 “They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them, And He will guide them to springs of water.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַיִםwater 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 4
- לto/for 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πηγή pēgḗ · G4077 · spring, well
- Greek πηγή renders Hebrew מַבּוּעַ in LXX contexts where natural water sources are in view, both denoting springs or fountains as sources of flowing water.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Waterbodies001002008
- מַבּוּעַ denotes a fountain or spring, as in Ecclesiastes 12:6's imagery of a broken "pitcher by the well" alongside spring-related terms, placing it among named water sources.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4002. mabbua מַבּוּעַ noun [masculine] spring of water (Assyrian namba'u Dl HWB 442,…
מַבּוּעַ noun [masculine] spring of water (Assyrian namba'u Dl HWB 442, Arabic , Syriac ); — absolute ׳מ Ecc 12:6; plural construct מַיִם מַבּוּעֵי Isa 35:7; Isa 49:10 (for returning exiles).
נִבְשָׁן see בשׁן
נגב (√ of following = be dry, parched, Late Hebrew נָגַב, Aramaic נְגִיב נְגוּב,).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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