מָקוֹר
māqôr
spring
Strong's H4726NounHebrewTWOT 2004a

מָקוֹר (māqôr) is a Hebrew noun meaning spring. It appears 18 times in 6 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H4726).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 2004a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 2004a)spring, fountain, well; source; flow; dug, pudenda; issue, wellspring
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

מָקוֹר noun, masculine: spring, fountain, well

Strong's H4726 מָקוֹר: 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)
KJV:fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 2004: קוּר qûr — bore, dig; trench, throw forth, wall up; break down, cast out, destroy

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 12:7Proverbs 5:18Jeremiah 2:13

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