מַעְיָן
maʻyân · mah-yawn'
a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
Lexicon
Derivation: or מַעְיְנוֹ; (Psalm 114:8), or (feminine) מַעְיָנָה; from H5869 (עַיִן) (as a denominative in the sense of a spring);
a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: fountain, spring, well.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to see and know › the hand that works › the seed, life continuing
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to see and know of the hand that works of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַעְיָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a fountain2 · 9%
- were all the fountains1 · 4%
- the fountains1 · 4%
- nevertheless a fountain1 · 4%
- unto the fountain1 · 4%
- to the well1 · 4%
- unto all fountains1 · 4%
- all wells1 · 4%
- all the wells1 · 4%
- all the fountains1 · 4%
- the fountain1 · 4%
- it a well1 · 4%
- on instruments shall be there: all my springs1 · 4%
- the springs1 · 4%
- into a fountain1 · 4%
- let thy fountains1 · 4%
- when there were no fountains1 · 4%
- fountain1 · 4%
- out of the wells1 · 4%
- and fountains1 · 4%
- and his fountain1 · 4%
- and a fountain1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.