Lexicon :: Strong's H4599 - maʿyān

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the vast watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

The sources of the watery depths and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky stopped.

“A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

From the top of the hill the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, went to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then curved to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

The south side began at the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border extended westward; it went to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”

“Then you will attack every fortified city and every choice city. You will cut down every good tree and stop up every spring. You will ruin every good piece of land with stones.”

They would destroy the cities, and each of them would throw a stone to cover every good piece of land. They would stop up every spring and cut down every good tree. This went on until only the buildings of Kir-hareseth were left. Then men with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.

Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land; they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water? ”

You opened up springs and streams;

you dried up ever-flowing rivers.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca,[fn]

they make it a source of spring water;

even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.[fn]

Singers and dancers[fn] alike will say,[fn]

“My whole source of joy is[fn] in you.”

He causes the springs to gush into the valleys;

they flow between the mountains.

who turned the rock into a pool,

the flint into a spring.

Should your springs flow in the streets,

streams in the public squares?

“I was born

when there were no watery depths

and no springs filled with water.

A righteous person who yields to the wicked

is like a muddied spring or a polluted well.

My sister, my bride, you are a locked garden —

a locked garden[fn] and a sealed spring.

You are a garden spring,

a well of flowing water

streaming from Lebanon.

You will joyfully draw water

from the springs of salvation,

I will open rivers on the barren heights,

and springs in the middle of the plains.

I will turn the desert into a pool

and dry land into springs.

Although he flourishes among his brothers,[fn]

an east wind will come,

a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert.

His water source will fail,

and his spring will run dry.

The wind[fn] will plunder the treasury

of every precious item.

In that day

the mountains will drip with sweet wine,

and the hills will flow with milk.

All the streams of Judah will flow with water,

and a spring will issue from the LORD’s house,

watering the Valley of Acacias.[fn]