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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.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits—and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell [fn]into them; but those who remained behind fled to the hill country.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore the well was called [fn]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a [fn]skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham reproved Abimelech about the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they cut a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when the women go out to draw water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - So she hurried and emptied her jar into the watering channel and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 -

Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi, for he [fn]was living in the land of the [fn]Negev.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - Now it happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac [fn]lived by Beer-lahai-roi.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up [fn]by filling them with earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 -

Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which [fn]had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, but the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he [fn]called them by the same names by which his father had called them.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of [fn]flowing water.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - And the herdsmen of Gerar contended with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well [fn]Esek, because they quarreled with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they dug another well, and they contended over it also, so he called it [fn]Sitnah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - Then he moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not contend over it; so he named it [fn]Rehoboth, and he said, “[fn]At last Yahweh has made [fn]room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 -

And he went up from there to Beersheba.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 -

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of Yahweh and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug out a well.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - Now it happened on that day, that Isaac’s servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 -

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they gave water to the flocks to drink. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And all the flocks would be gathered there, and they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and give water to the sheep to drink and return the stone back to its place on the mouth of the well.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we give water to the sheep to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and gave water to the flock of Laban his mother’s brother to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 -

So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 -

Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - And Pharaoh heard of this matter, so he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he [fn]sat down by a well.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 -

And from there they continued to [fn]Beer, that is the well where Yahweh said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 -

Then Israel sang this song:

“Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 -

“The well, which the leaders dug,

Which the nobles of the people carved out,

With the scepter and with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s highway until we have passed through your border.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And someone said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 -

Then Joab came out from David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 -

But You, O God, will bring them down to the [fn]pit of corruption;

Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in You.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -

May the [fn]flood of water not overflow me

Nor the deep swallow me up,

Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 -

Drink water from your own cistern

And [fn]fresh water from your own well.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 -

For a harlot is a deep pit

And [fn]a foreign woman is a narrow well.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 -

You are a garden spring,

A well of [fn]fresh water,

And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 -

For the cry has gone around the territory of Moab,

Its wailing goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 -

“Their mighty ones have sent their [fn]underlings for water;

They have come to the trenches and found no water.

They have returned with their vessels empty;

They have been put to shame and dishonored,

And they cover their heads.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - But it happened that as soon as they came inside the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the men that were with him slaughtered them and cast them into the cistern.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 -

Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down [fn]because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had made on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 -

“But do not seek Bethel,

And do not come to Gilgal,

Nor cross over to Beersheba;

For Gilgal will certainly go into [fn]exile,

And Bethel will become [fn]evil.

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