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<p> &nbsp;Leviticus 20:18 (a) By this word is described the monthly period which is common among women. </p> <p> &nbsp;Deuteronomy 33:28 (a) By this type we understand the continual, abundant harvest of grain and fruits. </p> <p> &nbsp;Psalm 36:9 (a) This is a prophecy, or a picture, of the blessed source of both our physical and our spiritual life. (See &nbsp;Psalm 68:26). </p> <p> &nbsp;Proverbs 5:16 (a) The Lord is using this figure to express His desire that each one of us who knows our Lord should be a source of blessing, comfort, help and joy to those around us. </p> <p> &nbsp;Proverbs 5:18 (a) Here is probably a reference to the fertility of a normal man in his marital relationships. </p> <p> &nbsp;Proverbs 13:14 (a) By this figure we are instructed to observe GOD's rules, and His desires toward us so that we may enjoy life to the full. (See &nbsp;Proverbs 14:27). </p> <p> &nbsp;Proverbs 25:26 (a) This situation is unnatural and breeds trouble in a home, or in a nation. </p> <p> &nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:6 (c) This may be taken as a picture of the end of life. </p> <p> The silver cord may refer to the spinal cord which no longer operates normally. </p> <p> The golden bowl may be the brain which is no longer active. </p> <p> The pitcher may refer to the heart which no longer pours out the blood. </p> <p> The fountain may refer to the blood stream in the arteries and the veins, as well as the heart. </p> <p> The wheel probably refers to the inability of the nervous system to function properly. </p> <p> All of this is a picture of old age. </p> <p> &nbsp;Isaiah 41:18 (a) The Lord is telling us that in the valleys of despair and sorrow He will bring sweet rich blessings for the heart. He will cause His mercy, love and grace to fill the soul of that one who in the hour of need turns to Him for solace. It is also a picture of the great blessings that GOD will send upon this earth in the millennial age. </p> <p> &nbsp;Jeremiah 2:13 (a) Here is a type, a splendid picture of GOD as the source of life and all things that pertain to life and godliness. We should never turn away from the living GOD. (See also &nbsp;Jeremiah 17:13). </p> <p> &nbsp;Hosea 13:15 (a) The curse of GOD will cause the blessings of [[Ephraim]] to cease. </p> <p> &nbsp;Joel 3:18 (a) By this we see the abundant blessings that GOD will pour out on His people in a coming day. It may be a prophecy concerning the coming of CHRIST, as in &nbsp;Zechariah 13:1. </p> <p> &nbsp;Revelation 21:6 (a) This fountain represents the [[Holy]] Spirit. The Lord [[Jesus]] is the giver of that lovely Person. He is also referred to in joh4as a well of water, which has the same meaning (See &nbsp;John 4:14). </p>

<p> ''Αyin , or 'eeyn , in many names, "the eye" of the landscape as distinguished from the artificially sunk and enclosed well. (See [[Engedi]] ; ENEGLAIM) Also mayan , etc. The natural bursting of waters from the ground, which drank of the rain of heaven (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 8:7; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 11:11), would on Israel's entrance into [[Canaan]] form a striking contrast to Egypt watered from below "with the foot," i.e. either by treadwheels working pumps, or by artificial rills led in ducts from the Nile, the petty embankments being removed with the foot to let in the stream. Canaan as a mountainous country depended for its crops on the rain from above, without which in the late autumn to quicken the newly sown seed, and in the spring to swell the grain, the harvest would fail. </p> <p> The configuration of the country did not favor much irrigation. "The eyes of the Lord, Israel's God, were always upon the land from the beginning of the year even unto the end," so long as [[Israel]] was faithful (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 11:11-12). Egypt symbolizes spiritually the world drawing all its resources, material, intellectual, and moral, from beneath. The Holy Land answers to the church, all whose supplies are continually from above (&nbsp;Psalms 87:7; &nbsp;John 8:23). When the country was more wooded its brooks were more filled than now, and though short lived now are remarkable still for their beauty. </p> <p> Thus to Palestine peculiarly of eastern lauds the psalmist's language is appropriate, "He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills" (&nbsp;Psalms 104:10). &nbsp;Deuteronomy 8:7; "a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills." [[Hot]] springs of volcanic origin are found near the sea of [[Galilee]] and the [[Dead]] Sea. [[Philip]] built [[Tiberias]] at the sulphureous hot springs S. of the sea of Galilee. Besides the main supply of cistern rain water Jerusalem had at least one perennial spring issuing by more than one outlet (Tacitus, Hist., 5:12, "fons perennis aquae ".) Jerusalem evidently possessed public fountains (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:13-14), "the dragon well... the gate of the fountain" (&nbsp;2 Samuel 17:17). (See [[Enrogel]] .) </p>

<div> '''1: πηγή ''' (Strong'S #4077 — Noun [[Feminine]] — pege — pay-gay' ) </div> <p> "a spring or fountain," is used of (a) "an artificial well," fed by a spring, &nbsp;John 4:6; (b) metaphorically (in contrast to such a well), "the indwelling Spirit of God," &nbsp;John 4:14; (c) "springs," metaphorically in &nbsp;2 Peter 2:17 , RV, for AV, "wells;" (d) "natural fountains or springs," &nbsp;James 3:11,12; &nbsp;Revelation 8:10; &nbsp;14:7; &nbsp;16:4; (e) metaphorically, "eternal life and the future blessings accruing from it," &nbsp;Revelation 7:17; &nbsp;21:6; (f) "a flow of blood," &nbsp;Mark 5:29 . </p>

<p> '''Fountain.''' ''(A Spring'' in distinction from a well'').'' The springs of Palestine, though short-lived, are remarkable for their abundance and beauty, especially those which fall into the [[Jordan]] and into its lakes, of which there are hundreds throughout its whole course. </p> <p> The spring or fountain of living water, the "eye" of the landscape, is distinguished in all Oriental languages from the artificially-sunk and enclosed well. Jerusalem appears to have possessed either more than one perennial spring or one issuing by more than one outlet. </p> <p> In Oriental cities, generally, public fountains are frequent. Traces of such fountains at Jerusalem may perhaps be found in the names of Enrogel, &nbsp;2 Samuel 17:17, the "Dragon well" or fountain, and the "gate of the fountain." &nbsp;Nehemiah 2:13-14. </p>

<p> '''''foun´tin''''' , '''''foun´tān''''' : In a country where no rain falls for half of the year, springs sume an importance unknown in more favored lands. In both eastern and western Palestine and even in [[Lebanon]] there are many villages which depend entirely upon reservoirs or cisterns of rain water. Others are situated along the courses of the few perennial streams. But wherever a spring exists it is very apt to be the nucleus of a village. It may furnish sufficient water to be used in irrigation, in which case the gardens surrounding the village become an oasis in the midst of the parched land. Or there may be a tiny stream which barely suffices for drinking water, about which the village women and girls sit and talk waiting their turns to fill their jars, sometimes until far in the night. The water of the village fountain is often conveyed by a covered conduit for some distance from the source to a convenient spot in the village where an arch is built up, under which the water gushes out. See [[Cistern]]; [[Spring]]; Well; En- , and place-names compounded with En- . </p> <p> Figurative: (1) of God (&nbsp; Psalm 36:9; &nbsp;Jeremiah 2:13; &nbsp;Jeremiah 17:13 ); (2) of [[Divine]] pardon and purification, with an obvious Messianic reference (&nbsp;Zechariah 13:1 ); (3) of wisdom and godliness (&nbsp;Proverbs 13:14; &nbsp;Proverbs 14:27 ); (4) of wives (&nbsp;Proverbs 5:18 ); (5) of children (&nbsp;Deuteronomy 33:28; compare &nbsp;Psalm 68:26; &nbsp;Proverbs 5:16 ); (6) of prosperity (&nbsp;Psalm 107:35; &nbsp;Psalm 114:8; &nbsp;Hosea 13:15 ); (7) of the heart (&nbsp;Ecclesiastes 12:6; see [[Cistern]] ); (8) of life everlasting (&nbsp;Revelation 7:17; &nbsp;Revelation 21:6 ). </p>