noun · neuter
freatem
Strong’sG5421
a pit, well
stem freat-7 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
φρέαρ, -ατος, τό
[in LXX chiefly for בְּאֵר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5421 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidfreh'-ar
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)
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jameswell, pit.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
epigram φρεῖαρ Refs 2nd c.BC+, contraction φρητός Refs 1st c.AD+, Hdn.Gr.1.409; Epic dialect dative φρέᾰτι Refs 3rd c.BC+; plural φρέᾱτα, also φρῆτα Refs 3rd c.BC+; Epic dialect plural φρείᾰτα (see. below):—an artificial well (thus distinguished from κρήνη,Refs 5th c.BC+; but φ. ἀσφάλτον naphtha-spring, LXX+8th c.BC+; the stem φρεατ - first in Refs
2 later, tank, cistern, reservoir, Refs 5th c.BC+, etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, pit, φ. διαφθορᾶς LXX
2.b perhaps oil-jar, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις, proverbial of persons 'on the brink of a volcano', Refs 1st c.AD+; λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει proverbial cited in Refs 5th c.AD+; πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος, i.e. a large wine-cup, Refs 2nd c.AD+. [Attic dialect genitive φρέᾱτος Refs 5th c.BC+ genitive frhvṇτος, cf. Armenian albiur 'well', Goth. and ORefs 5th c.BC+ brunna 'stream, burn', Latin ferveo, defrutum.)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | freatem1×φρέαρ | freateim |
| of, belonging to genitive | freateu3×φρέατος | freateiu |
| to, for dative | freate | freatei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
freate is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
freatem“well”subject or objectdirect singular1×
John 4:11… Kurior, oute antlēmem echasō kai tem freatem atō bathuem; pothen oun echasō tem …… nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You …
freateu“shaft”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
Revelation 9:1“shaft”… kai dōita auto tas kleidas teu freateu tau abussau;… it was given the key to the pit of the Abyss.
Revelation 9:2“shaft”… abussau, kai anabainata kapnos ek teu freateu hōs kapnos kaminosau megau, kai skotita …… of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
Revelation 9:2“shaft”… tos aeros ek tou kapnou teu freateu.… it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.
freatem3×
Luke 14:5“well”… Tinou vu huios ē bouos eis freatem pipteti, kai ouk eutheōs anaspati auton …… asked them, “Which of you whose son or ox falls into a pit on the Sabbath day will not immediately pull him out?”
John 4:12… nu Iakōb, hos dōata ni tem freatem kai autos ek auteu pinata kai …… father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as …
Revelation 9:2“shaft”kai anoigata tem freatem tau abussau, kai anabainata kapnos ek …The star opened the pit of the Abyss, and smoke rose out of it like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the pit.