Well/abyss
φρέαρStrong’s G5421phrear
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Phrear is the Greek word usually translated “pit” and “well”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?”
Meaning
Usually translated “pit” and “well”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- pit 4
- well 2
- a pit 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 2
- Revelation 2
- Luke 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- John 4:11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
- John 4:12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
- Revelation 9:1And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
- Revelation 9:2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Greek dictionary
φρέαρ phrear · well/abyss
φρέαρ, -ατος, τό [in LXX chiefly for בְּאֵר ;] a well: Luk.14:5, Sng.4:11-12; φ. τῆς ἀβύσσου, Rev.9:1-2.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PIT, verb transitive
To indent; to press into hollows.
- To mark with little hollows, as by variolous pustules; as the face pitted by the small pocks.
- To set in competition, as in combat.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.