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|txtha=φρεαρατος, τό, from the [[Homer]] [[hymn]] Cer. 99 and [[Herodotus]] 6,119 [[down]]; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in בּור (a [[pit]], [[cistern]]), a [[well]]: [[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]]), Revelation 9:1f.