Spring in the Bible
1. Season of, promised annual return of
- Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
⇒Bible Encyclopedia for SPRING.
Described
- Proverbs 27:25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
- Song of Solomon 2:11-13 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; 12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; 13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
2. Of water
⇒See also McClintock and Strong Cyclopedia for Spring.
Hot
- Genesis 36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.
FIGURATIVE
Corrupt
- Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
- James 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
See WELLS