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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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:10

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 survived fled to the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Therefore the well was called [fn]Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

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 boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham [fn]complained to Abimelech because of the well of water which the servants of Abimelech had seized.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:30

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beersheba; and Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from going to Beer-lahai-roi; for he [fn]was living in the [fn]Negev.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac [fn]lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:18

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, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he [fn]gave them the same names which his father had [fn]given them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of [fn]flowing water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well [fn]Esek, because they contended with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it [fn]Sitnah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it [fn]Rehoboth, for he said, “[fn]At last the LORD has made [fn]room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - Now it came about on the same 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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Then Jacob departed from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He looked, and [fn]saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - When all the flocks were gathered there, they would then roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:8

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 water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob went up and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:1

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:5

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - From there they continued to [fn]Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - “The well, which the leaders sank,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter and with their staffs.”
And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:22

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:22

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - When Joab came out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But You, O God, will bring them down to the [fn]pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink water from your own cistern
And [fn]fresh water from your own well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep pit
And an [fn]adulterous woman is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - “You are a garden spring,
A well of [fn]fresh water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - For the cry of distress has gone around the territory of Moab,
Its wail goes as far as Eglaim and its wailing even to Beer-elim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - “Their nobles have sent their [fn]servants for water;
They have come to the cisterns and found no water.
They have returned with their vessels empty;
They have been put to shame and humiliated,
And they cover their heads.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - Yet it turned out 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 41:9

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - “But do not [fn]resort to Bethel
And do not come to Gilgal,
Nor cross over to Beersheba;
For Gilgal will certainly go into captivity
And Bethel will [fn]come to trouble.
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