makor · spring, flow

What it means

makor (מָקוֹר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spring, flow”.

Spring, fountain; also a woman's flow of blood (Leviticus 12:7).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The place where water wells up, and so also the source of life.
2. A flow of blood, like that of a woman.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fountain ×15
• spring ×2
• flow ×1

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×7
• Jeremiah×4
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×1

• Leviticus 12:7

  He shall present it before YHWH and make expiation for her, and she will be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the instruction for her who gives birth to a male or a female.

• Leviticus 20:18

  And a man who lies with a woman in her sickness and uncovers her nakedness has laid bare her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

• Psalms 36:9

  For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

• Psalms 68:26

  In the assemblies bless Elohim, YHWH, you who are from the fountain of Israel.

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

• Proverbs 10:11

  A fountain of life is the mouth of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

• Proverbs 13:14

  The instruction of the wise is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 14:27

  The fear of YHWH is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.

• Proverbs 16:22

  A fountain of life is prudence to those who have it, but the correction of fools is folly.

• Proverbs 18:4

  Deep waters are the words of the mouth of a man; a flowing stream, a fountain of wisdom.

• Proverbs 25:26

  A muddied spring and a ruined fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

• Jeremiah 2:13

  For two evils my people has done: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, to hew out for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold the water.

• Jeremiah 9:1

  Oh that my head were water and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

• Jeremiah 17:13

  Hope of Israel, YHWH, all who abandon you will be put to shame; and those who turn away from me will be written in the earth, for they have abandoned the fountain of living waters, YHWH.

• Jeremiah 51:36

  Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am pleading your cause, and I will avenge your vengeance; and I will dry up her sea, and make dry her spring.

• Hosea 13:15

  Though he is fruitful among brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of YHWH rising from the wilderness; and his spring will dry up, and his fountain will be parched; it will plunder the treasure of every precious object.

• Zechariah 13:1

  On that day there will be a fountain opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity.

And 1 more times.