φρέ-αρ,
φρεῖαρ Nic. Th. 486, τό, gen. φρέᾱτος (v. sub fin.), contr. φρητός IGRom. 1.1167 C 6 (Egypt, i A. D.), Hdn.Gr.1.409; dat. φρέᾰτι h.Cer. 99 (s. v.l.), φρητί Call. Cer. 15; pl. φρέᾱτα, also φρῆτα PCair.Zen. 499.12 (iii B. C.); pl. φρείᾰτα (v. infr.): -
an artificial well (thus distd. from κρήνη, cf. Hdt. 4.120, D. 14.30; but φ. ἀσφάλτον naphtha- spring, LXX [Gen 14:10], cf. Hdt. 6.119), πᾶσαι κρῆναι καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν Il. 21.197; the stem φρεατ - first in h.Cer. l.c.
2. later, tank, cistern, reservoir, Hdt. 1.68, Th. 2.48, 49, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν Pl. La. 193c, cf. Prt. 350a; φ. ὀρώρυκται S.E. M. 8.129; ποιητὰ φ., v. ποιητός 1: generally, pit, φ. διαφθορᾶς LXX [Psa 55:23] (54). 24. perh. oil-jar, Ar. Pl. 810.
3. metaph., εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων Pl. Tht. 174c; ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος ib. 165b; ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις, prov. of persons ’on the brink of a volcano’, Plu. 2.68b; λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει prov. ap. Hsch., Phot.; πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος, i.e. a large wine-cup, Ath. 5.192a, cf. Chamaeleon ap.eund. 11.461c. [ Att. gen. φρέᾱτος Ar. Ec. 1004, Fr. 295, Stratt. 57 (troch.), Alex. 179, Apollod.Gel. 1.] (Orig. frhvṛ, gen. frhvṇ τος, cf. Arm. albiur ’well’, Goth. and O E. brunna ’stream, burn’, Lat. ferveo, defrutum.)
G5421 — φρέαρ
φρεαρατος, τό, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in [1Sa 19:22]; [2Sa 3:26]; [Jer 48:7], [Jer 48:9] ([Jer 41:7],9>) בּור (a pit, cistern), a well: [Luk 14:5]; [Joh 4:11]f; φρέαρ τῆς ἀβύσσου, the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so to resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow), [Rev 9:1]f.