Words the Bible translates as well
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 10 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- ayinעַיִןa spring or well: a place where water comes up out of the ground.
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- the eye: the organ of sight, and by extension how a person sees, judges, wants, and is looked upon.
- pēgēπηγήa spring: a natural source of water rising from the ground, and by extension the source from which something flows
- kalōsκαλῶςwell: in a good, right, or fitting way
- phrearφρέαρa well: a deep shaft dug straight down into the ground, either to reach water or to open into the depths below
- borבּוֹרa pit dug or hewn into the ground: a cistern for water, a hole that holds a person or traps an animal, and, in poetry, the grave.
- euεὖwell/well done!not studied yet
- be'erבְּאֵרa well or pit dug into the ground: most often a shaft sunk by hand to reach underground water
- hugiēsὑγιήςhealthy: sound and well in body, restored from sickness or injury.
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- sound: (of speech or teaching) healthy and wholesome, free of anything corrupt.
- mayanמַעְיָןa spring: a place where fresh water rises up out of the ground
- mashavמַשְׁאָבwellnot studied yet
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