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- In the Hebrew Bible, water, wells, dew, rain, cisterns and fountains serve as metaphors for the divine, or divine attributes. One of the most important recurring metaphors for God, particularly in the prophetic books, is that of the Fountain of Living Waters (Hebrew: mekor mayyim hayyim) such as in Jeremiah 2:13f.
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Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen -- + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
- Lam·Ma·Yim
Englishman's Concordance. lam·ma·yim — 5 Occurrences. Exodus...
- Bə·Ma·Yim
NAS: in running water and will become clean. KJV: in running...
- Mim·Ma·Yim
Englishman's Concordance. mim·ma·yim — 5 Occurrences. 2...
- Ū·Mê·May
Englishman's Concordance. ū·mê·may — 1 Occurrence. Hosea 2:5...
- Bə·Mê
Englishman's Concordance. bə·mê — 4 Occurrences. Numbers...
- Wā·Mā·Yim
KJV: bread and water, and be astonied INT: will be scarce...
- Mim·Mê
Bible > Strong's > Hebrew mim·mê Englishman's Concordance....
- Ū·Ḇam·Ma·Yim
Englishman's Concordance. ū·ḇam·ma·yim — 6 Occurrences....
- Lam·Ma·Yim
Water — in Hebrew, — is mentioned 22 times. The portion begins with God’s command to mix water with the ashes of a dies, and the well which provided the Israelites with water disappears. The Jewish people quarrel with Moses, complaining (Numbers 20:3), “There is no water to drink!”. Moses and Aaron strike the rock and God brings forth ...
Jewish literacy note. For Orthodox Jews, an ingredient considered needful in the process of regaining purity is immersion in a mikvah, a pool of mayim chayim, "living (non-stagnant) waters." In the absence of a mikvah, the ocean, or a river or a flowing lake can serve for this purpose.
One of the most important recurring metaphors for God, particularly in the prophetic books, is that of the Fountain of Living Waters (Hebrew: mekor mayyim hayyim) such as in Jeremiah 2:13f. Proverbs uses “fountain of life” as a metaphor for wisdom (Proverbs 18:4) and in the book of Amos justice is referred to as water.
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Dec 17, 2019 · Living waters became an idiom to the ancient Hebrews for the revelation of knowledge from Torah (Rabbi Eliezer Shore). Every Jew in Jesus day as well as the Samaritans knew this association or Hebrew idiom.
Dr. Jeremy Benstein notes that Biblical Hebrew contains at least six different words to describe liquid precipitation (geshem, matar, yoreh, malkosh, revivim, se'irim), which denote different times and intensities of rainfall.
Aug 18, 2019 · “The Lord is mightier than the noise of many waters (Heb. mayim) and mightier than the waves of the sea (yim). The root words of both water and sea are the rare cases where it is dual and triliteral. Waters is spelled “mem, yod” and seas is spelled “yod, mem.” Each has a numerical value of 50.
