mayan · spring, fountain

What it means

mayan (מַעְיָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “spring, fountain”.

Of water; figuratively, a source.

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. Water that wells up from the ground and does not run dry: a spring or fountain.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• spring ×11
• springs ×10
• fountain ×1
• fountains ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• Joshua×2
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×3
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×2
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1

• Genesis 7:11

  In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

• Genesis 8:2

  And the springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was held back.

• Leviticus 11:36

  But a spring or a cistern holding a collection of water shall be clean, but whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean.

• Joshua 15:9

  and the border bent from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border bent to Baalah (that is Kiriath-jearim);

• Joshua 18:15

  And the south side was from the end of Kiriath-jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah;

• 1 Kings 18:5

  Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the brooks; perhaps we will find grass and keep alive horse and mule, and not have to cut off some of the animals.”

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You will strike every fortified city and every choice city, and every good tree you will fell, and all the springs of water you will stop up, and every good plot of land you will ruin with stones.”

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They tore down the cities, and on every good plot of land each one threw his stone and they filled it; they stopped up every spring of water and felled every good tree, until only in Kir-hareseth its stones were left; and the slingers surrounded it and struck it.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  Many people were gathered, and they stopped up all the fountains and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?”

• Psalms 74:15

  You opened spring and brook; you dried up constant rivers.

• Psalms 84:6

  Those who pass through the valley of Baca make it a spring; the early rain also covers it with blessings.

• Psalms 87:7

  And those who sing like those who dance: All my springs are in you.

• Psalms 104:10

  He sends springs into the streambeds; between the mountains they flow.

• Psalms 114:8

  who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs be scattered outside, streams of water in the squares?

• Proverbs 8:24

  When there were no deeps, I was brought forth, when there were no springs laden with water.

• Proverbs 25:26

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

• Song of Songs 4:12

  A garden locked is my sister, bride, a fountain locked, a spring sealed.

• Song of Songs 4:15

  a spring of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

• Isaiah 12:3

  And you will draw water with joy from the springs of salvation.

• Isaiah 41:18

  I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.

• 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.

• Joel 3:18

  And it will happen on that day that the mountains will drip sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah will run with water; and a spring will go out from the house of YHWH and water the wadi of the Acacias.