Bible word study

Maqowr (Strong’s H4726): Meaning in the Bible

Maqowr (מָקוֹר) is the Hebrew word numbered H4726 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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). In the King James Bible it is translated fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring)..

• Original wordמָקוֹר
• Transliterationmâqôwr
• Pronunciationmaw-kore'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4726
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or מָקֹר; from H6979;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Maqowr appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Maqowr (H4726) stands behind 18 English renderings in 17 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Proverbs (7), Jeremiah (4), Leviticus (3).

How the King James Bible renders Maqowr, by count

• fountain11 of 18 (61 percent)
• spring2 of 18 (11 percent)
• wellspring2 of 18 (11 percent)
• issue1 of 18 (6 percent)
• springs1 of 18 (6 percent)
• well1 of 18 (6 percent)

Three places to read Maqowr

• Leviticus 12:7 Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
• Proverbs 10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Jeremiah 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Maqowr in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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