φρέαρ
phrear · well
Greek word · Strong’s number G5421 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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phrear (φρέαρ) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “well”.
How to say it
phre·ar
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
- Well; "the shaft of the abyss".
From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- shaft ×4
- well ×3
Where it appears
- Luke 14:5
And to them he said, “Whose son or ox among you will fall into a well, and he will not at once pull him out on the day of the Sabbath?”
- John 4:11
The woman says to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living water?
- John 4:12
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”
- Revelation 9:1
And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth; and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him.
- Revelation 9:2
And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the shaft.
And 2 more times.