Well
מַשְׁאָבStrong’s H4857mashav (mash-av)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mashav is the Hebrew word usually translated “places for drawing water”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.”
Meaning
- Drawing place of water, place to draw water
How it's translated
- places for drawing water 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מַשְׁאָב mashav · well
drawing place of water, place to draw water
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “well” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WELL, noun
[G., a spring; to spring, to issue forth, to gush, to well to swell. G., a wave. On this word I suppose swell to be formed.]
- A spring; a fountain; the issuing of water from the earth.
- A pit or cylindrical hole, sunk perpendicularly into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, and walled with stone to prevent the earth from caving in.
- In ships, an apartment in the middle of a ships hold, to inclose the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck.
- In a fishing vessel, an apartment in the middle of the hold, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated int he bottom to let in fresh water for the preservation of fish, while they are transported to market.
All definitions
- In the military art, a hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
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.