Spring
מַעְיָןStrong’s H4599mayan (ma-yan)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mayan is the Hebrew word usually translated “spring”, “springs of” and “spring of”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
Meaning
- Spring
How it's translated
- a spring 5
- springs of 4
- spring of 3
- springs 3
- the springs 1
- springs my 1
- into spring of his 1
- springs your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Proverbs 3
- Genesis 2
- Joshua 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Song of Solomon 2
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:2The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
- Leviticus 11:36Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
- Joshua 15:9And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
- Joshua 18:15And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
- 1 Kings 18:5And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
- 2 Kings 3:19And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
Hebrew dictionary
מַעְיָן mayan · spring
spring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPRING, verb intransitive
preterit tense sprung, [sprang, not wholly obsolete; ] participle passive sprung.
- To vegetate and rise out of the ground; to begin to appear; as vegetables.“To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth” Job 38:27
- To begin to grow.
- To proceed, as from the seed or cause.
- To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or exist.“When the day began to spring they let her go” Judges 19:25
All definitions and other forms of “spring”
- To break forth; to issue into sight or notice.
- To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country.
- To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original.
- To grow; to thrive.
- To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source.
- To leap; to bound; to jump.
- To fly back; to start; as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
- To start or rise suddenly from a covert.
- To shoot; to issue with speed and violence.
- To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface.
SPRING, verb transitive
- To start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
- To produce quickly or unexpectedly.
- To start; to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden; to produce unexpectedly.
- To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
- To burst; to cause to open; as, to spring a leak.
- To crack; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
- To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap; as, to spring a trap.
SPRING, noun
- A leap; a bound; a jump; as of an animal.
- A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as the spring of a bow.
- Elastic power or force.
- An elastic body; a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it; as the spring of a watch or clock.
- Any active power; that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.
- A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue.
- The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there.
- A source; that from which supplies are drawn.
- Rise; original; as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9:26
- Cause; original.
- The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season.
- In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. [In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.]
- A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor.
- A plant; a shoot; a young tree. [Not in use.]
- A youth. [Not in use.]
- A hand; a shoulder of pork. [Not in use.]
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.