Strong H5869H5869Bעַ֫יִן
Fountain (Gate)
One of the 8 senses of Strong H5869
- Transliteration
- ‛ayin
- Pronunciation
- ah'-yin
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape): - {affliction} outward {appearance} + {before} + think {best} {colour} {conceit} + be {content} {countenance} + {displease} eye ({[-brow]} {[-d]} {-sight}) {face} + {favour} {fountain} furrow [from the {margin]} X {him} + {humble} {knowledge} {look} (+ {well}) X {me} open ({-ly}) + (not) {please} {presence} + {regard} {resemblance} {sight} X {thee} X {them} + {think} X {us} {well} X you (-rselves).
Detailed definition
§ spring, fountain
In the biblical story
Fountain Gate
Gate in Jerusalem's wall; rebuilt by Shallun during Nehemiah's time
The Fountain Gate, a gate in Jerusalem's wall, was rebuilt by Shallun during Nehemiah's time and was a location for processions and gatherings.
In the Bible
Strong H5869B appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- fountain3
First verses
- Nehemiah 2:14Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
- Nehemiah 3:15But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
- Nehemiah 12:37And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.