Topic
Spring
7 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 8:22Nave 1. Season of, promised annual return of
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Genesis 36:24Nave 2. Of water — Hot
And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
- Joshua 10:40Easton
¶ So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
- Proverbs 25:26Nave FIGURATIVE — Corrupt
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
- Proverbs 27:25Nave 1. Season of, promised annual return of — Described
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
- Song of Songs 2:11–13Nave 1. Season of, promised annual return of — Described
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender…
- James 3:11Nave FIGURATIVE — Corrupt
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
(Heb. ‘ain, “the bright open source, the eye of the landscape”). To be carefully distinguished from “well” (q.v.). “Springs” mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. ‘ashdoth) should rather be “declivities” or “slopes” (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.