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Lexicon :: Strong's G5421 - phrear

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φρέαρ
Transliteration
phrear (Key)
Pronunciation
freh'-ar
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: cvii. Additional Synonyms

Strong’s Definitions

φρέαρ phréar, freh'-ar; of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):—well, pit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G5421 in the following manner: pit (5x), well (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G5421 in the following manner: pit (5x), well (2x).

  1. a well

  2. the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φρέαρ phréar, freh'-ar; of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):—well, pit.
STRONGS G5421:
φρέαρ, φρεαρατος, τό, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in 1 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 3:26; Jeremiah 48:7, 9 (Jer. 41:7,9) בּור (a pit, cistern), a well: Luke 14:5; John 4:11f; φρέαρ τῆς ἀβύσσου, the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so to resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow), Revelation 9:1f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Samuel
19:22
2 Samuel
3:26
Jeremiah
41:7; 41:9; 48:7; 48:9
Luke
14:5
John
4:11
Revelation
9:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5421 matches the Greek φρέαρ (phrear),
which occurs 57 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the salt valley consists of slime-pits. And the king of Sodom fled and the king of Gomorrha, and they fell in there: and they that were left fled to the mountain country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And Abraam rose up in the morning and took loaves and a skin of water, and gave them to Agar, and he put the child on her shoulder, and sent her away, and she having departed wandered in the wilderness [fn]near the well of the oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well [fn]of springing water; and she went and filled the skin with water, and gave the child drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - And Abraam reproved Abimelech because of the wells of water, which the servants of Abimelech took away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - And Abraam said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe-lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - And they made a covenant at the well of the oath. And there rose up Abimelech, Ochozath his friend, and Phichol the commander-in-chief of his army, and they returned to the land of the Phylistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraam planted a field at the well of the oath, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - And Abraam returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to the well of the oath; and Abraam dwelt at the well of the oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he [fn]rested his camels without the city by the well of water towards evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - And she hasted, and emptied the water-pot into the trough, and ran to the well to draw again, and drew water for all the camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - And Isaac went through the wilderness to the well of the vision, and he dwelt in the land toward the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - And it came to pass after Abraam was dead, that God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac dwelt by the well of the vision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Phylistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraam had dug, and the Phylistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraam; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - And the servants of Isaac dug in the valley of Gerara, and they found there a well of living water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - And the shepherds of Gerara strove with the shepherds of Isaac, saying that the water was theirs; and they called the name of the well, Injury, for they injured him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - And he went up thence to the well of the oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the valley of Gerara.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - And it came to pass in that day, that the servants of Isaac came and told him of the well which they had dug; and they said, We have not found water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - And he called it, Oath: therefore he called the name of that city, the Well of Oath, until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went forth from the well of the oath, and departed into Charrhan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And there were all the flocks gathered, and they used to roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flocks, and set the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - And they said, We shall not be able, until all the shepherds be gathered together, and they shall roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, then we will water the flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, that Jacob came and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - And Israel departed, he and all that he had, and came to the well of the oath; and he offered sacrifice to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - And Jacob rose up from the well of the oath; and the sons of Israel took up their father, and the baggage, and their wives on the waggons, which Joseph sent to take them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - And Pharao heard this matter, and sought to slay Moses; and Moses departed from the presence of Pharao, and dwelt in the land of Madiam; and having come into the land of Madiam, he sat on the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - And thence they came to the well; this is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, Gather the people, and I will give them water to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then Israel sang this song at the well, Begin to sing [fn]of the well;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - the princes digged it, the kings of the nations in their kingdom, in their lordship sank it in the rock: and they went from the well to Manthanain,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - We will not drink water out of thy well; we will go by the king's highway, until we have past thy boundaries.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - And Saul was very angry, and went himself also to Armathaim, and he comes as far as the well of the threshing-floor that is in Sephi; and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? and they said, Behold, in Navath in Rama.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - And Joab returned from David, and sent messengers to Abenner after him; and they bring him back from the well of Seïram: but David knew it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - (LXX 54:24) But thou, O God, shalt bring them down to the pit of destruction; bloody and crafty men shall not live out half their days; but I will hope in thee, O Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - (LXX 68:16) Let not the waterflood drown me, nor let the deep swallow me up; neither let the well shut its mouth upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink waters out of thine own vessels, and out of thine own springing wells.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - a fountain of a garden, and a well of water springing and gurgling from Libanus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - For the cry has reached the border of the region of Moab, even of Agalim; and her howling has gone as far as the well of Ælim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - (LXX 48:7) And it came to pass, when they had entered into the midst of the city, that he slew them and cast them into a pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 - (LXX 48:9) Now the pit into which Ismael cast all whom he smote, is the great pit, which king Asa had made for fear of Baasa king of Israel: even this Ismael filled with slain men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - But seek not Bæthel, and go not in to Galgala, and cross not over to the Well of the Oath: for Galgala shall surely go into captivity, and Bæthel shall be as that which is not.
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