Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
spring
Usage: spring
Mayan means “fountain” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4599 — sthenoo (“strengthen”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4599 מַעיָן מַעיְנוֹ מַעיָנָה (ma`yan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ma`yan (mah-yawn') (or ma ynow (Psa. 114) n-m. 1. a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction) [from H5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring)] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include fountain, fountains, and also. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ma`yan (mah-yawn') (or ma ynow (Psa. 114) n-m. 1. a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction) [from H5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring)] KJV: fountain, spring, well. Root(s): H5869
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spring
Usage: spring
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ma`yan, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. 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.
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23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4599.
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 of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains 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.
And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
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 of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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 shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
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 shall come forth out of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4599, grouped by book.
Mayan (Strong's H4599) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fountain". ma`yan (mah-yawn') (or ma ynow (Psa. 114) n-m. 1. a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction) [from H5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring)]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H4599 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4599 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fountain, fountains, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.