מָקוֹר

Leviticus 12:7 מִמְּקֹ֣ר from [the] spring of

And the priest will present them before the LORD and make atonement for her; and she shall be ceremonially cleansed from her flow of blood. This is the law for a woman giving birth, whether to a male or to a female.

Leviticus 20:18 מְקֹרָ֣הּ מְק֣וֹר spring her, [the] spring of

If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.

Psalm 36:9 מְק֣וֹר a fountain of

For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.

Here: A natural spring welling up out of the ground, a source that keeps flowing by itself. It is linked to the next word, so it means "the spring of life", the place where life itself comes from.

Psalm 68:26 מִמְּק֥וֹר from [the] fountain of

Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.

Proverbs 5:18 מְקוֹרְךָ֥ spring your

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

Here: 'Your spring': a natural source of running water, the opposite of the stored water in a cistern. Here it is a picture of sexual life and the source of offspring. The parallel line points mainly to the wife, though the image may also take in the man's own procreative power.

Proverbs 10:11 מְק֣וֹר [is] a fountain of

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Here: A spring or source that flows by itself, not a stored cistern. It comes first in the Hebrew for emphasis: "A spring of life, that is what the righteous person's mouth is."

Proverbs 13:14 מְק֣וֹר [is] a fountain of

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning one from the snares of death.

Here: A spring of water that flows on its own, the source from which water keeps coming. This form means "spring of." It pictures the teaching as an ongoing supply, not a single dose.

Proverbs 14:27 מְק֣וֹר [is] a fountain of

The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

Here: A natural spring that flows up from the ground, as opposed to a cistern that only holds water collected from rain. The fear of the LORD is pictured as something that keeps producing life by itself.

Proverbs 16:22 מְק֣וֹר [is] a fountain of

Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.

Here: A spring that flows up out of the ground on its own, as opposed to a cistern that only holds collected rain. It opens the verse: before we learn what the subject is, we hear 'a spring of…'.

Proverbs 18:4 מְק֣וֹר a fountain of

The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.

Here: A spring where water rises up by itself, as opposed to a cistern or a deep well. Proverbs uses the image for life-giving speech and teaching ('fountain of life', 10:11; 13:14).

Proverbs 25:26 וּמָק֣וֹר and a fountain

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

Jeremiah 2:13 מְק֣וֹר׀ a spring of

“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

Here: A natural spring, the place where water wells up out of the ground by itself. It stands in apposition to 'me': God is the spring.

Jeremiah 9:1 מְק֣וֹר [was] a fountain of

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Here: 'A source of', meaning a spring that flows on its own and keeps flowing. In Jeremiah this is the word for God himself as 'the fountain of living waters' (2:13; 17:13).

Jeremiah 17:13 מְק֥וֹר [the] spring of

O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for they have abandoned the LORD, the fountain of living water.

Here: A source that rises from the ground by itself, unlike a cistern people dig. It pairs with miqveh ('pool') at the start of the verse.

Jeremiah 51:36 מְקוֹרָֽהּ׃ spring its

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.

Here: 'Her spring' or 'her source': where water rises, and so where life comes from. God will cut off Babylon's water at its source, not only on the surface. In Jeremiah, God himself is 'the fountain of living waters' (2:13; 17:13).

Hosea 13:15 מְקוֹרוֹ֙ 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 source.' The word is used for springs of water, for Yahweh as 'the fountain of living waters' (Jeremiah 2:13), and for the source of blood or fertility in the body (Leviticus 12:7). So it is the wellspring of Ephraim's life.

Zechariah 13:1 מָק֣וֹר a fountain

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

Here: A natural spring: water welling up from the ground, an ongoing source rather than a container. Elsewhere God himself is called 'the spring of living water' (Jeremiah 2:13).