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Strong's #5421 - φρέαρ

Transliteration
phréar
Phonetics
freh'-ar
Origin
of uncertain derivation
Parts of Speech
neuter noun
TDNT
None
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Definition   
Thayer's
  1. a well
  2. the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)
Hebrew Equivalent Words:
Strong #: 875 ‑ בְּאֵר (be‑ayr');  953 ‑ בּוֹר (bore);  1460 ‑ גֵּו (gave);  
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

φρέ-αρ,

φρεῖαρ Nic. Th. 486, τό, gen. φρέᾱτος (v. sub fin.), contr. φρητός IGRom. 1.1167 C 6 (Egypt, i A. D.), Hdn.Gr.1.409; dat. φρέᾰτι h.Cer. 99 (s. v.l.), φρητί Call. Cer. 15; pl. φρέᾱτα, also φρῆτα PCair.Zen. 499.12 (iii B. C.); pl. φρείᾰτα (v. infr.):

an artificial well (thus distd. from κρήνη, cf. Hdt. 4.120, D. 14.30; but φ. ἀσφάλτον naphtha- spring, LXX Genesis 14:10, cf. Hdt. 6.119), πᾶσαι κρῆναι καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν Il. 21.197; the stem φρεατ - first in h.Cer. l.c.

2. later, tank, cistern, reservoir, Hdt. 1.68, Th. 2.48, 49, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν Pl. La. 193c, cf. Prt. 350a; φ. ὀρώρυκται S.E. M. 8.129; ποιητὰ φ., v. ποιητός 1: generally, pit, φ. διαφθορᾶς LXX Psalms 55:23 (54). 24. perh. oil-jar, Ar. Pl. 810.

3. metaph., εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων Pl. Tht. 174c; ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος ib. 165b; ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις, prov. of persons 'on the brink of a volcano', Plu. 2.68b; λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει prov. ap. Hsch., Phot.; πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος, i.e. a large wine-cup, Ath. 5.192a, cf. Chamaeleon ap.eund. 11.461c. [ Att. gen. φρέᾱτος Ar. Ec. 1004, Fr. 295, Stratt. 57 (troch.), Alex. 179, Apollod.Gel. 1.] (Orig. frhv, gen. frhvṇ τος, cf. Arm. albiur 'well', Goth. and O E. brunna 'stream, burn', Lat. ferveo, defrutum.)

Thayer's Expanded Definition

φρέαρ, φρεαρατος, τό, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in 1 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 3:26; Jeremiah 48:7, 9 () בּור (a pit, cistern), a well: Luke 14:5; John 4:11f; φρέαρ τῆς ἀβύσσου, the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so to resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow), Revelation 9:1f.


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

φρέαρ , -ατος , τό ,

[in LXX chiefly for H875;]

a well: Luke 14:5, ; φ . τῆς ἀβύσσου , Revelation 9:1-2.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For χολή, ";gall,"; ";bile,"; as in Mat. 27:34, cf. PSI III. 211.4 (v/A.D.) τὸν τῆς [[σ ]]χολῆς νοσήσαντα. See also Ev. Petr. 5 ποτίσατε αὐτὸν χολὴν μετὰ ὄξους, with Swete’s illustrative note. The power of ";gall"; in medical and magical receipts is discussed by Olsson ad P Osl I. 1.284 (iv/A.D.) (p. 104 f.). In Herodas III. 70 (ed. Headlam) δότω τις ἐς τὴν χεῖρα πρὶν χολῇ βῆξαι, editor translates ";put it into my hand before I choke with choler"; : (see the note p. 150).

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
φρεαρ φρεάρ φρέαρ φρέατα φρέατι φρεατος φρέατος φρέατός φρεάτων phrear phréar phreatos phréatos
 
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