- Transliteration: Phrear

- Phonetic: freh'-ar

- Definition:

1. a well

2. 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 resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)

- Origin: of uncertain derivation

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Neuter

- Strong's: Of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes) that is a cistern or well; figuratively an abyss (as a prison): - well pit.