# H4726 מָקוֹר

מָקוֹר (mâqôwr), Strong’s H4726: properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda);… KJV: fountain…

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*mâqôwr* — properly, something dug, i.e. a (general) source (of water, even when naturally flowing; also of tears, blood (by euphemism, of the female pudenda);…

KJV: fountain, issue, spring, well(-spring).

Derived from [קוּר qûwr](https://besorah.bible/word/H6979) (to trench)

Occurs 18 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מָקוֹר n.m. spring, fountain (app. orig. well)
- 1 spring of water
- 2 fig. of eye
- 3 source of menstruous blood
- 4 = flow of blood after child-birth

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 12:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/12?v=7) — He shall offer it before the LORD, and make atonement for her; then she shall be cleansed from the fountain of her…
- [Leviticus 20:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/20?v=18) — “‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and…
- [Jeremiah 2:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/2?v=13) — “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for…
- [Jeremiah 8:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/8?v=23) — Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the…
- [Jeremiah 17:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/17?v=13) — LORD, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the…
- [Jeremiah 51:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/51?v=36) — Therefore the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea, and make…
- [Hosea 13:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/13?v=15) — Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of the LORD coming up from the wilderness…
- [Zechariah 13:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zechariah/13?v=1) — “In that day there will be a fountain opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for…
- [Psalms 36:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/36?v=10) — For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.
- [Psalms 68:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=27) — “Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”