מַעְיָן

Genesis 7:11 מַעְיְנֹת֙ [the] springs of

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Here: Springs: places where water wells up from underground. Here they are the outlets through which the waters under the earth rise to the surface.

Genesis 8:2 מַעְיְנֹ֣ת [the] springs of

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Leviticus 11:36 מַעְיָ֥ן a spring

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Joshua 15:9 מַעְיַן֙ [the] spring of

From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

Joshua 18:15 מַעְיַ֖ן [the] spring of

On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.

Here: 'The spring of.' This is a natural spring where water comes out of the ground, not a dug well. Springs were fixed landmarks that everyone knew, which made them ideal points on a boundary.

1 Kings 18:5 מַעְיְנֵ֣י [the] springs of

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”

2 Kings 3:19 מַעְיְנֵי־ [the] springs of

And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”

2 Kings 3:25 מַעְיַן־ spring of

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

2 Chronicles 32:4 הַמַּעְיָנ֔וֹת the springs

Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

Psalm 74:15 מַעְיָ֣ן a spring

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Here: A natural spring welling up from the ground, related to ʿayin, "eye" or "spring". It means a water-source, not a decorative fountain. The singular stands for springs in general.

Psalm 84:6 מַעְיָ֣ן a spring

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.

Here: "A spring". This is water that flows up out of the ground by itself. It is not a dug well or a cistern. It stands first in its clause for emphasis: a spring is what they turn the dry valley into.

Psalm 87:7 מַעְיָנַ֥י springs my

Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”

Here: A natural spring or fountain of flowing water, which in a dry land is the source of life. Here it is used as a picture: every source of the speaker's life and origin is in Zion. That fits the psalm's theme of being “born” there (vv. 4–6).

Psalm 104:10 מַ֭עְיָנִים springs

He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.

Psalm 114:8 לְמַעְיְנוֹ־ into spring of his

who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!

Here: 'Into a spring of', meaning a natural spring that keeps flowing up out of the ground. The preposition lᵉ- marks what the flint becomes. The -ô ending is most likely an old poetic linking ending ('spring of'), not 'his'. See the textual notes.

Proverbs 5:16 מַעְיְנֹתֶ֣יךָ springs your

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Proverbs 8:24 מַ֝עְיָנ֗וֹת [were] springs

When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.

Here: Springs where underground water breaks the surface. In Israelite thinking these were the outlets of the great deep (Genesis 7:11, 'the springs of the great deep'), so the line moves from the source to its outlets.

Proverbs 25:26 מַעְיָ֣ן a spring

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

Song of Songs 4:12 מַעְיָ֥ן a spring

My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.

Here: A natural spring of running water, the most valuable thing a piece of land in the Levant could have. It keeps the garden alive. In verse 15 it becomes "a fountain of gardens, a well of living water."

Song of Songs 4:15 מַעְיַ֣ן a spring of

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Isaiah 12:3 מִמַּעַיְנֵ֖י from [the] springs of

With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,

Here: "From the springs of": natural sources where water comes up out of the ground and flows, not dug cisterns. The plural suggests plenty: more than one source, more than enough for everyone.

Isaiah 41:18 מַעְיָנ֑וֹת springs

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.

Here: Natural springs welling up from the ground. The word is related to ʿayin, which means both 'eye' and 'spring'. These are living water sources, not man-made fountains.

Hosea 13:15 מַעְיָנ֔וֹ spring his

Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.

Here: 'His spring', paired with 'source' in a typical Hebrew poetic doublet. Both terms together mean every water supply fails, the most basic need in the land.

Joel 3:18 וּמַעְיָ֗ן and a spring

And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.

Here: A spring that rises from the ground. Unlike the seasonal channels, it does not depend on rain. Its source is God's house itself.