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Strong's G5421 φρέαρ (phrear)

Phrear means “well” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H5421 — natha (“break”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G5421
Language Greek
Linked Usages 55
Books 16

Strong's G5421 Quick Answer

Strong's G5421 φρέαρ (phrear) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. phrear (freh'-ar) n. 1. a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well 2. (figuratively) an abyss (as a prison) It has 55 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include water and well. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
phrear (freh'-ar) n. 1. a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well 2. (figuratively) an abyss (as a prison)
Usage
55 linked usages
Books
16 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
water and well

Meaning and Definition

phrear (freh'-ar) n. 1. a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well 2. (figuratively) an abyss (as a prison) [of uncertain derivation] KJV: well, pit See also: G12

Original Word
φρέαρ
Transliteration
phrear
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5421. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

well/abyss

Usage: φρέαρ, -ατος, τό [in LXX chiefly for בְּאֵר ;] a well: Luk.14:5, Sng.4:11-12; φ. τῆς ἀβύσσου, Rev.9:1-2.† (AS)

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How Strong's G5421 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render phrear, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

water John 4:11 well John 4:12

How Strong's G5421 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 48 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5421 (φρέαρ) appears 59 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5421 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G5421 in the New Testament

5 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 14:5 KJV

And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?

John 4:11 KJV

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

John 4:12 KJV

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

Strong's G5421 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

48 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 14:10 Septuagint / Brenton

Now the salt valley consists of slime pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.

Genesis 16:14 Septuagint / Brenton

Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Kadesh and Bered.

Genesis 21:14 Septuagint / Brenton

And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.

Strong's G5421 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 7:19 Septuagint / Brenton

After this removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Beth-zaith, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.

2 Maccabees 1:19 Septuagint / Brenton

For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

Usage Excerpts

First 55 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5421.

Genesis 14:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the salt valley consists of slime pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrah, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.
Genesis 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Genesis 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness near the well of the oath.
Genesis 21:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of springing water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the child drink.
Genesis 21:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.
Genesis 21:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.
Genesis 21:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.
Genesis 21:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
Genesis 22:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abraham returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to the well of the oath; and Abraham dwelt at the well of the oath.
Genesis 24:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he rested his camels without the city by the well of water toward evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.
Genesis 24:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she hastened, and emptied the waterpot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels.
Genesis 24:62 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaac went through the wilderness to the well of the vision, and he dwelt in the land toward the south.
Genesis 25:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass after Abraham was dead, that God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac dwelt by the well of the vision.
Genesis 26:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Genesis 26:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.
Genesis 26:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.
Genesis 26:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the shepherds of Gerar strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him.
Genesis 26:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
Genesis 26:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
Genesis 26:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he went up thence to the well of the oath.
Genesis 26:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the Valley of Gerar.
Genesis 26:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass in that day, that the servants of Isaac came and told him of the well which they had dug; and they said, We have not found water.
Genesis 26:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he called it, Oath: therefore he called the name of that city, the Well of Oath, until this day.
Genesis 28:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Haran.
Genesis 29:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And there were all the flocks gathered, and they used to roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flocks, and set the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well.
Genesis 29:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they said, We shall not be able, until all the shepherds be gathered together, and they shall roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, then we will water the flocks.
Genesis 29:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, that Jacob came and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother.
Genesis 46:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath; and the sons of Israel took up their father, and the baggage, and their wives on the wagons, which Joseph sent to take them.
Exodus 2:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Pharaoh heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses; and Moses departed from the presence of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and having come into the land of Midian, he sat on the well.
Numbers 21:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thence they came to the well; this is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water to drink.
Numbers 21:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin to sing of the well;
Numbers 21:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The princes dug it, The kings of the nations in their kingdom, In their lordship sank it in the rock: and they went from the well to Mattanah,
Numbers 21:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
We will not drink water out of thy well; we will go by the king’s highway, until we have past thy boundaries.
1 Kingdoms 19:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Saul was very angry, and went himself also to Ramah, and he comes as far as the well of the threshing floor that is in Secu; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? and they said, Behold, in Naioth in Ramah.
2 Kingdoms 3:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joab returned from David, and sent messengers to Abner after him; and they bring him back from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
Psalms 54:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thou, O God, shalt bring them down to the pit of destruction; Bloody and crafty men Shall not live out half their days; But I will hope in thee, O Lord.
Psalms 68:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let not the waterflood drown me, Nor let the deep swallow me up; Neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.
Proverbs 5:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Drink waters out of thine own vessels, And out of thine own springing wells.
Proverbs 23:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; And a strange well is narrow.
Song of Solomon 4:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A fountain of a garden, And a well of water springing and gurgling from Lebanon.
Isaiah 15:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, even of Eglaim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Elim.
Jeremiah 14:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.
Jeremiah 48:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit.
Jeremiah 48:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Now the pit into which Ishmael cast all whom he smote, is the great pit, which King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: even this Ishmael filled with slain men.
Amos 5:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But seek not Bethel, and go not in to Gilgal, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be as that which is not.
Luke 14:5 New Testament, KJV
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
John 4:11 New Testament, KJV
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
John 4:12 New Testament, KJV
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Revelation 9:1 New Testament, KJV
And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
Revelation 9:2 New Testament, KJV
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
1 Maccabees 7:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
After this removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Beth-zaith, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.
2 Maccabees 1:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in a hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5421, grouped by book.

Genesis 31 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Song of Solomon 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
John 2 usages, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G5421 FAQ

What does phrear (φρέαρ) mean?

Phrear (Strong's G5421) is a Greek word most simply glossed "well". phrear (freh'-ar) n. 1. a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well 2. (figuratively) an abyss (as a prison)

How many times is phrear (φρέαρ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 55 linked usages for Strong's G5421 across 16 books.

Where can I study phrear (φρέαρ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5421 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate phrear (φρέαρ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as water and well. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G5421 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 48 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G5421, with linked reader references where each row is available.