"a source, spring, fountain, Jas. 3:11, 12; a well, Jn. 4:6; an issue, flux, flow, Mk. 5:29; met. Jn. 4:14"
Definition and meaning
a source, spring, fountain, Jas. 3:11, 12; a well, Jn. 4:6; an issue, flux, flow, Mk. 5:29; met. Jn. 4:14
In the original Greek the word is written: πηγή
Historical context
The Gospel of Mark moves urgently — the word "immediately" appears over 40 times. It was written for a Roman audience familiar with power and action. Jesus is portrayed as a man who acts, heals, and commands authority that the Roman world had never seen from a Jewish teacher.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of pege (G4077) across the King James Bible.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.
Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
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Common questions
Strong's G4077 (pege) is a Greek word that means: a source, spring, fountain, Jas. 3:11, 12; a well, Jn. 4:6; an issue, flux, flow, Mk. 5:29; met. Jn. 4:14 It appears 11 times in the King James Bible.
The word pege (G4077) appears 11 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G4077 is pege, a Greek word defined as: a source, spring, fountain, Jas. 3:11, 12; a well, Jn. 4:6; an issue, flux, flow, Mk. 5:29; met. Jn. 4:14. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
pege is a Greek word found in the New Testament.