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מַיִם חַיִּים

mayim chayim

pronounced MAH-yim khah-YEEM

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

also written: mayim chayim, mayim hayim, mayim chaim, майим хайим, ма́йим хайи́м

In Scripture World English Bible

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.

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