מַעְיָן maʻyân

Meaning

a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)

In the King James Version: fountain, spring, well.

Derivation: or מַעְיְנוֹ; (Psalm 114:8), or (feminine) מַעְיָנָה; from H5869 (עַיִן) (as a denominative in the sense of a spring);

Where it is used

• Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
• Genesis 8:2 The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.
• Leviticus 11:36 Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.
• Joshua 15:9 From the hilltop the border curved to the spring of the Waters of Nephtoah, proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, and then bent around toward Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).
• Joshua 18:15 On the south side the border began at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim and extended westward to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.
• 1 Kings 18:5 Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
• 2 Kings 3:19 And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
• 2 Kings 3:25 They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.
• 2 Chronicles 32:4 Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
• Psalms 74:15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.
• Psalms 84:6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
• Psalms 87:7 Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”
• Psalms 104:10 He sends forth springs in the valleys; they flow between the mountains.
• Psalms 114:8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
• Proverbs 5:16 Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
• Proverbs 8:24 When there were no watery depths, I was brought forth, when no springs were overflowing with water.
• Proverbs 25:26 Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.
• Song of Solomon 4:12 My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed.
• Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
• Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
• Isaiah 41:18 I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs.
• Hosea 13:15 Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
• Joel 3:18 And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will run with water, and a spring will flow from the house of the LORD to water the Valley of Acacias.