Spring
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Spring in the Bible Dictionary
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1. Season of, promised annual return of
Gen 8:22
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Genesis 8:22 -
Described
Prov 27:25; Song 2:11–13
25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Proverbs 27:2511 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.
Song of Solomon 2:11 - 2. Of water
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Hot
Gen 36:24
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.
Genesis 36:24 - Figurative
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Corrupt
Prov 25:26; Jas 3:11
26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
Proverbs 25:2611 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
James 3:11 - See Wells
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.