Lexical Definition

‎מָקוֹר‎ mâqôwr (maw-kore') fountain ^H:N-M
or מָקֹר mâqôr (maw-kore'); from ‎קוּר‎

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

• 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)

1) spring, fountain
1a) spring
1a1) of source of life, joy, purification (fig.)
1b) of the eye (fig.)
1c) source (of menstruous blood)
1d) flow (of blood after child birth)

See Greek: ἔξοδος · πηγή · ῥύσις · ὕδωρ

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מָקוֺר‎ noun masculine^{Zech 13:1} spring, fountain (apparently originally well); — absolute ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Zech 13:1; Prov 25:26 construct ‎מְקוֺר‎ Jer 2:13 +, ‎מְקֹר‎ Lev 12:7; Lev 20:18 suffix ‎מְקוֺרוֺ‎ Hos 13:15, etc.; —

1. spring of water : a; figurative, of ‎׳‎‎י‎, ‎מַיִם‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ ‎חַיִּים‎ Jer 2:13; Jer 17:13, compare ‎חַיִּים‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Ps 36:10* ‎חַיִּים‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ (more generally), Prov 10:11; Prov 13:14; Prov 14:27; Prov 16:22 + Prov 18:4 (so read for ‎חָכְמָה‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ ᵐ5 Hebrew Manuscripts Toy).
b. figurative of purification Ezek 13:1.
c. ‎מָקוֺר מָשְׁחָת‎ Prov 25:26 (figurative; + ‎מַעְיָן‎).
d. figurative of source of life and vigour Hos 13:15; Jer 51:36 of a nation's original source, stock Ps 68:27* (Kay Che, of temple); source of joy Prov 5:18 (figurative of wife; || ‎אֵשֶׁת‎).

2. figurative of eye, ‎מְקוֺר דַּמְעָה‎, Jer 8:23*.

3. source of menstruous blood, ‎דָּמֶיהָ‎ ‎׳‎‎מְ‎ Lev 20:18, so ‎מְקֹרָהּ‎ vLev 20:18 (H).

4. = flow of blood after child-birth ‎דָּמֶיהָ‎ ‎׳‎‎מְ‎ Lev 12:7 (P).

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