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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 BoxGen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi[fn]; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - So that place was called Beersheba,[fn] because the two men swore an oath there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - After the treaty had been made at Beersheba, Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces returned to the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek,[fn] because they disputed with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[fn] saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - He called it Shibah,[fn] and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - There he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank— the nobles with scepters and staffs.” Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - “Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Finally, he himself left for Ramah and went to the great cistern at Seku. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “Over in Naioth at Ramah,” they said.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - Joab then left David and sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern at Sirah. But David did not know it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days. But as for me, I trust in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - Do not let the floodwaters engulf me or the depths swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - You are[fn] a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - Their outcry echoes along the border of Moab; their wailing reaches as far as Eglaim, their lamentation as far as Beer Elim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - When they went into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 - Now the cistern where he threw all the bodies of the men he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one King Asa had made as part of his defense against Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.[fn]”
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