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Lexicon :: Strong's G5421 - phrear

Aa
φρέαρ
Transliteration
phrear (Key)
Pronunciation
freh'-ar
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

Trench's Synonyms: cvii. Additional Synonyms

Strong’s Definitions

φρέαρ phréar, freh'-ar; of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):—well, pit.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's G5421 in the following manner: pit (5x), well (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's G5421 in the following manner: pit (5x), well (2x).

  1. a well

  2. the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
φρέαρ phréar, freh'-ar; of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):—well, pit.
STRONGS G5421:
φρέαρ, φρεαρατος, τό, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in 1 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 3:26; Jeremiah 48:7, 9 (Jer. 41:7,9) בּור (a pit, cistern), a well: Luke 14:5; John 4:11f; φρέαρ τῆς ἀβύσσου, the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so to resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow), Revelation 9:1f.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Samuel
19:22
2 Samuel
3:26
Jeremiah
41:7; 41:9; 48:7; 48:9
Luke
14:5
John
4:11
Revelation
9:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5421 matches the Greek φρέαρ (phrear),
which occurs 57 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:32 - So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:19 - So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:11 - And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son: and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well’s mouth was great.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in its place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - And from thence they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then sang Israel this song:
Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 -
The well, which the princes digged,
Which the nobles of the people delved,
With the sceptre, and with their staves.
And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed thy border.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:22 - Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:26 - And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 -
But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction:
Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days;
But I will trust in thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 -
Let not the waterflood overwhelm me,
Neither let the deep swallow me up;
And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 -
Drink waters out of thine own cistern,
And running waters out of thine own well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 -
For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 -
Thou art a fountain of gardens,
A well of living waters,
And flowing streams from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:8 - For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:3 - And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:7 - And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:9 - Now the pit wherein Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:5 - but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
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