Numbers 21:17
Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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Spring
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Mark 4:27
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
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מוֹצָא
môwtsâʼ · mo-tsaw'
2 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
Strong's KJV usage: brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-) course (springs).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 2:21Strong's last: Isaiah 58:11
Open full H4161 profile →מָקוֹר
mâqôwr · maw-kore'
2 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda); figuratively, of happiness, wisdom, progeny)
Strong's KJV usage: fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Proverbs 25:26Strong's last: Hosea 13:15
Open full H4726 profile →עָלָה
ʻâlâh · aw-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form894 total Strong's occurrences
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Strong's KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 19:25Strong's last: 1 Samuel 9:26
Open full H5927 profile →βλαστάνω
blastánō · blas-tan'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
to germinate; by implication, to yield fruit
Strong's KJV usage: :--bring forth, bud, spring (up).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 4:27Strong's last: Mark 4:27
Open full G985 profile →גַּל
gal · gal
1 times translated as this KJV form35 total Strong's occurrences
something rolled, i.e. a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
Strong's KJV usage: billow, heap, spring, wave.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 4:12Strong's last: Song of Solomon 4:12
Open full H1530 profile →דָּשָׁא
dâshâʼ · daw-shaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to sprout
Strong's KJV usage: bring forth, spring.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joel 2:22Strong's last: Joel 2:22
Open full H1876 profile →פָּרַח
pârach · paw-rakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
Strong's KJV usage: × abroad, × abundantly, blossom, break forth (out), bud, flourish, make fly, grow, spread, spring (up).
Strong's first: Psalms 92:7Strong's last: Psalms 92:7
Open full H6524 profile →צֶמַח
tsemach · tseh'-makh
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a sprout (usually concrete), literal or figurative
Strong's KJV usage: branch, bud, that which (where) grew (upon), spring(-ing).
Strong's first: Ezekiel 17:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:9
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Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
no direct Strong's tag
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
H5927
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
H5927
And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
H4161
And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
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Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
H6524
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
H4726
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
H1530
A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
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Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
H4161
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
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For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
no direct Strong's tag
For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord GOD will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
H6780
Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
H4726
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
H1876
Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
G985
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
English meaning and historical usage.
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spring
SPRING, verb intransitive preterit tense sprung, [sprang, not wholly obsolete; ] participle passive sprung.
1. To vegetate and rise out of the ground; to begin to appear; as vegetables.
To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job 38:27.
2. To begin to grow.
The teeth of the young not sprung--
3. To proceed, as from the seed or cause.
Much more good of sin shall spring
4. To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or exist.
When the day began to spring they let her go. Judges 21:1
Do not blast my springing hopes.
5. To break forth; to issue into sight or notice.
O spring to light; auspicious babe, be born.
6. To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country. Aaron and Moses sprung from Levi.
7. To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original. The noblest title springs from virtue.
They found new hope to spring out of despair.
8. To grow; to thrive.
What makes all this but Jupiter the king, at whose command we perish and we spring
9. To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source. Water springs from reservoirs in the earth. Rivers spring from lakes or ponds.
10. To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springs from highth to highth, and bounds along the plains--
11. To fly back; to start; as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
12. To start or rise suddenly from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring
13. To shoot; to issue with speed and violence.
And sudden light sprung through the vaulted roof--
14. To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface. Our mechanics say, a piece of timber or a plank springs in seasoning.
To spring at, to leap towards; to attempt to reach by a leap.
To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.
To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.
To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.
SPRING, verb transitive
1. To start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly.
The nurse, surprisd with fright, starts up and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
[I have never heard such an expression.]
3. To start; to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden; to produce unexpectedly.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
[In lieu of spring the people int he United States generally use start; to start a new project.]
4. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
5. To burst; to cause to open; as, to spring a leak. When it is said, a vessel has sprung a leak, the meaning is, the leak has then commenced.
6. To crack; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
7. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap; as, to spring a trap.
To spring a butt, in seamens language, to loosen the end of a plank in a ships bottom.
To spring the luff, when a vessel yields to the helm, and sails nearer to the wind than before.
To spring a fence, for to leap a fence, is not a phrase used in this country.
To spring an arch, to set off, begin or commence an arch from an abutment or pier.
SPRING, noun
1. A leap; a bound; a jump; as of an animal.
The prisner with a spring from prison broke.
2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as the spring of a bow.
3. Elastic power or force. The soul or the mind requires relaxation, that it may recover its natural spring
Heavns, what a spring was in his arm.
4. An elastic body; a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it; as the spring of a watch or clock.
5. Any active power; that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.
--Like nature letting down the springs of life.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move the heros glory--
6. A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Springs are temporary or perennial. From springs proceed rivulets, and rivulets united form rivers. Lakes and ponds are usually fed by springs.
7. The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there. Thus we say, a spring is dry.
8. A source; that from which supplies are drawn. The real Christian has in his own breast a perpetual and inexhaustible spring of joy.
The sacred spring whence right and honor stream.
9. Rise; original; as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9:26.
10. Cause; original. The springs of great events are often concealed from common observation.
11. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season. This season comprehends the months of March, April and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
12. In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. [In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.]
13. A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor. It is intended to bring her broadside to bear upon some object. A spring is also a rope extending diagonally from the stern of one ship to the head of another, to make on ship sheer off to a greater distance.
14. A plant; a shoot; a young tree. [Not in use.]
15. A youth. [Not in use.]
16. A hand; a shoulder of pork. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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