G5421 – phrear – φρέαρ well, pit

Strong’s ID:
G5421
Greek Word:
φρέαρ
Transliteration:
phrear
Pronunciation:
freh’-ar
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage Count:
7
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Find “phrear” in the Bible (New Testament)

Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes), i.e. a cistern or well; figuratively, an abyss (as a prison):—well, pit.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

1) a well
2) the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.