# mayim chayim (מַיִם חַיִּים)

pronounced: MAH-yim khah-YEEM


**Living water — fresh, running water from a spring; the image Jesus took up at Sukkot for the Spirit**

## In Scripture

> Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
> — Genesis 26:19 (Isaac’s servants strike a spring; the Hebrew calls it a well of living water, which the WEB renders as springing water.)

> “For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
> — Jeremiah 2:13 (God names himself the spring of living waters, set against cisterns that cannot hold water.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/mayim-chayim/