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# מָקוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4726

**spring** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4726/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָקוֹר²: n.m. spring, fountain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4726/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Zc 13:1 spring, fountain (app. orig. well);—abs. מ׳ Zc 13:1; Pr 25:26; cstr. מְקוֹר Je 2:13 +, מְקֹר Lv 12:7; 20:18; sf. מְקוֹרוֹ Ho 13:15, etc.;— spring of water: fig., of י׳, מ׳ מַיִם חַיִים Je 2:13; 17:13, cf. מ׳ חַיִּים ψ 36:10; מ׳ חַיִּים (more gen.), Pr 10:11; 13:14; 14:27; 16:22 + 18:4 (so read for מ׳ חָכְמָה 𝔊 Heb Codd Toy). fig. of purification Zc 13:1. מָקוֹר מָשְׁחָת Pr 25:26 (fig.; + מַעְיָן). fig. of source of life and vigour Ho 13:15 Je 51:36; of a nation’s orig. source, stock ψ 68:27 (Kay Che, of temple); source of joy Pr 5:18 (fig. of wife; ‖ אֵשֶׁת). fig. of eye, מְקוֹר דִּמְעָה, Je 8:23. source of menstruous blood, מְ׳ דָּמֶיהָ Lv 20:18, so מְקֹרָהּ v 18 (H). = flow of blood after child-birth מְ׳ דָּמֶיהָ 12:7 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] a fountain (4); a fountain (4); spring (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.27/#tree)

בְּֽ֭מַקְהֵלוֹת בָּרְכ֣וּ אֱלֹהִ֑ים יְ֝הוָ֗ה מִמְּק֥וֹר יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* in assemblies bless God Yahweh from the.fountain of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* 'Bless ye God in full assemblies, even the Lord, ye that are from the fountain of Israel.'

[Proverbs 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.11/#tree)

מְק֣וֹר חַ֭יִּים פִּ֣י צַדִּ֑יק וּפִ֥י רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים יְכַסֶּ֥ה חָמָֽס׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.fountain of.life \[the\].mouth of.a.righteous.\[person\] and.\[the\] mouth of.wicked.\[people\] it.conceals violence

*JPS 1917:* The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked concealeth violence.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4726.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4726/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).