מָקוֹרmâqôwr
spring, fountain, (apparently originally well)
Pronunciation: maw-kore' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4726
Meanings
1. spring, of water
2. figurative of eye (Jeremiah 8:23)
3. source, of menstruous blood (Leviticus 20:18)
4. = flow of blood (Leviticus 12:7)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 18 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 12:7 The priest will then present them to the Lord to purify her. Then she will be ceremonially clean again after her bleeding at childbirth. These are the instructions for a woman after the birth of a son or a daughter.
- Leviticus 20:18 “If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her menstrual period, both of them must be cut off from the community, for together they have exposed the source of her blood flow.
- Psalms 36:9 For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see.
- Psalms 68:26 Praise God, all you people of Israel; praise the Lord, the source of Israel’s life.
- Proverbs 5:18 Let your wife be a fountain of blessing for you. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.
- Proverbs 10:11 The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain; the words of the wicked conceal violent intentions.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).