Spring

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: spring, springs, springing. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “spring” or one of its forms.

• מַעְיָן mayân18
• עַיִן ayin14
• πηγή pēgḗ7
• מַלְקוֹשׁ malqôsh6
• מוֹצָא môtsâ5
• תְּשׁוּבָה teshûbâh5
• צָמַח tsâmach5
• גֻּלָּה gullâh4
• עָלָה âlâh4
• מַבּוּעַ mabbûa3
• יָצָא yâtsâ3
• תְּהוֹם tehôm2

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

• מַעְיָן mayânspringtranslated this way 18 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s H4599Noun  ·  Translated: spring 10, springs 7, fountain 3, fountains 2

  Genesis 8:2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

  Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

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• עַיִן ayineyetranslated this way 14 times of its 764 uses · Strong’s H5869Noun  ·  Translated: eyes 383, sight 186, eye 38, presence 13

  Genesis 16:7 Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert — the spring along the road to Shur.

  Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

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• מַלְקוֹשׁ malqôshlatter-rain, spring-raintranslated this way 6 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H4456Noun  ·  Translated: spring 2, spring rains 2, like spring showers 1, like the spring showers 1

  Job 29:23 They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers.

  Proverbs 16:15 When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

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• מוֹצָא môtsâplace or act of going forth, issue, export, source, springtranslated this way 5 times of its 26 uses · Strong’s H4161Noun  ·  Translated: exits 3, imported 2, utterance 2, flowing springs 2

  2 Kings 2:21 and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”

  Psalm 107:33 He turns rivers into deserts, springs of water into thirsty ground,

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• תְּשׁוּבָה teshûbâhreturn, answertranslated this way 5 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H8666Noun  ·  Translated: spring 5, return 1, answers 1, answering 1

  2 Samuel 11:1 In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

  1 Kings 20:22 Afterward, the prophet approached the king of Israel and said, “Go and strengthen your position, and take note what you must do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”

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• צָמַח tsâmachsprout, spring uptranslated this way 5 times of its 33 uses · Strong’s H6779Verb  ·  Translated: sprouted 4, grow 4, sprout 4, spring 4

  Job 8:19 Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

  Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

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• גֻּלָּה gullâhbasin, bowltranslated this way 4 times of its 13 uses · Strong’s H1543Noun  ·  Translated: springs 4, bowl-shaped 4, bowl 3, bowls 2

  Joshua 15:19 “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

  Judges 1:15 “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

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• עָלָה âlâhgo up, ascend, climbtranslated this way 4 times of its 873 uses · Strong’s H5927Verb  ·  Translated: go 118, went 107, brought 56, come 42

  Numbers 21:17 Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

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• מַבּוּעַ mabbûaspring of watertranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H4002Noun  ·  Translated: springs 2, spring 1

  Ecclesiastes 12:6 Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,

  Isaiah 35:7 The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.

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• יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 3 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb  ·  Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
• תְּהוֹם tehômdeep, sea, abysstranslated this way 2 times of its 36 uses · Strong’s H8415Noun  ·  Translated: deep 16, depths 9, watery depths 3, ocean depths 2

  Deuteronomy 8:7 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

  Ezekiel 31:4 The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

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• שָׁחִיס shâchîsafter-growthtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H7823Noun  ·  Translated: springs 2

  2 Kings 19:29 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

  Isaiah 37:30 And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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• מַיִם mayimwater, juice, urinetranslated this way 2 times of its 533 uses · Strong’s H4325Noun  ·  Translated: water 298, waters 176, like water 15, flood 3

  2 Chronicles 32:30 It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

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Greek words (New Testament)

• πηγή pēgḗa fountain, spring, welltranslated this way 7 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G4077Noun  ·  Translated: springs 5, well 2, spring 2, fount 1

  James 3:11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

  2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

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What the Bible says about spring: passages by topic →

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.