πηγή
pēgē
flow
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
SupportedThe Greek word πηγή (pēgē) carries the meaning of "flow." As a noun, it suggests the idea of movement or discharge of a fluid, such as water. Its short definition provides a clear understanding of the concept it represents. This concept is used 12 times in the Bible, indicating its significance in various contexts. The range of usage for πηγή spans different scenarios, but its core meaning remains consistent. From a literal perspective, πηγή can refer to a stream or a spring (e.g., Luke 11:13, describing a request for "water"). In a broader sense, it can convey the idea of an origin or source from which something flows or emanates (e.g., Revelation 12:16, describing the flow of a river).
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Occurrences in Scripture
12 total occurrences across the text
Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
John 4:6Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:6Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
James 3:11Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
James 3:12Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
2 Peter 2:17These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Revelation 7:17for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 8:10The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from the sky, burning like a torch, and it fell on one third of the rivers, and on the springs of the waters.
Revelation 14:7He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”
Revelation 16:4The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
Revelation 21:6He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.