noun · feminine
pēgas
Strong’sG4077
a fountain, spring, well
stem pēg-11 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books5 of 10 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.
πηγή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for עַיִן, also for מָקוֹר, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4077 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpay-gay'
a fount (literally or figuratively), i.e. source or supply (of water, blood, enjoyment) (not necessarily the original spring)
Fromprobably from G4078 (through the idea of gushing plumply);
King Jamesfountain, well.
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
Doric dialect πᾱγά, ἡ, running water, used by Refs 8th c.BC+ always in plural, streams, πηγαὶ ποταμῶν Refs 8th c.BC+
2 metaphorically, of tears, πηγαὶ κλαυμάτων, δακρύων, streams.., Refs 5th c.BC+; also πηγαὶ γάλακτος, βοτρύων, Refs 5th c.BC+; πόντου πηγαῖς with sea-water, Refs; πηγαὶ τροφῆς τῷ γεννωμένῳ, of mother's milk, Refs 5th c.BC+
II fount, source, τοῦ Νείλου Refs 5th c.BC+; πηγαὶ ἡλίου the fount of light, i. e. the South, Refs 4th c.BC+; πηγαὶ νυκτός the North, Refs 5th c.BC+; πυρὸς παγαίRefs 5th c.BC+; πηγὴ ἀργύρου, of the silver-mines at Laureion, Refs 4th c.BC+; τῆς ἀκουούσης π. δι᾽ ὤτων, i.e. the sense of hearing, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπὸ μιᾶς ἀρχῆς καὶ π. Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 metaphorically, source, origin, mostly in singular, κακῶν π. Refs 4th c.BC+; αἱ τέχναι, ἃς πηγάς φασι τῶν καλῶν εἶναι Refs 5th c.BC+; π. ἡδονῶν, τοῦ φρονεῖν, νοσημάτων, etc., Refs 5th c.BC+; βέβηκα π. εἰς ἐμάς I have returned to the source of my existence, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.3 inner canthus of eye, supposed source of tears, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 nominative | pēgas4×πηγὴ | pēgais1×πηγαὶ |
| object accusative | pēgan | pēgain4×πηγὰς |
| direct address vocative | pēgar | pēgair |
| of, belonging to genitive | pēgau1×πηγῆς | pēgaiu |
| to, for dative | pēga1×πηγῇ | pēgai |
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
pēga 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
pēgas“spring”subjectnominative singular4×
Mark 5:29“flow”kai euthuos xēranita tas pēgas teu haimeu autau, kai gnōskata te …Immediately her bleeding stopped, and she sensed in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
John 4:6ate de ekei pēgas tou Iakōb. tos oun Iēsus kopiarēntos …Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His …
John 4:14“spring”… hem dōami auto geneti en auto pēgas hudeu hallorōnteu eis zōan aiōnian.… water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
James 3:11mēti tas pēgas ek tau autau opau bruatō tem …… salt water flow from the same spring?
pēgau“spring”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Revelation 21:6… mis to dipsarōnto dōami ek tau pēgau teu hudeu tau zōau dōreōs.… I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
pēga“well”to, fordative singular1×
John 4:6… tau hodoiporiau kathezote houtōs epi ta pēga; hōras ate hōs hektas.… His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
pēgais“springs”subjectnominative plural1×
2 Peter 2:17Houtois alō pēgais anudrais kai homichlais hupo lailapau elaunorōntais, …These men are springs without water and mists driven by …
pēgain“springs”objectaccusative plural4×
Revelation 7:17… autoin, kai hodēgati autoin epi zōau pēgain hudeiu; kai exaleifati tos theos pantem …… shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will …
Revelation 8:10… tritem toiu potamoiu kai epi tain pēgain teiu hudeiu.… of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Revelation 14:7… kai tan gēan kai thalassan kai pēgain hudeiu.… earth and the sea and the springs of waters.”
Revelation 16:4… autou eis toin potamoin kai tain pēgain teiu hudeiu; kai geneta haimem.… his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to …