LIVING WATER — literally, not idiomatically: chayim is the ordinary Hebrew word for ‘alive’, the same root behind chai and chavah, Eve’s own name. Applied to water it means a moving spring or stream, as opposed to the still water standing in a cistern — which is exactly why every major English and Spanish version flattens it to a functional description (‘running water’, ‘fresh water’, ‘aguas corrientes’) instead of translating the word actually there. This project’s own John 4 note already flagged the connection before this verse existed: Greek hydōr zōn, what Jesus offers the Samaritan woman at the well, is ‘the same idiom Hebrew has in mayim chayim, the “living water” required for certain purifications’ — this is that purification. ⚠ Kept literal here for the same reason ‘side’ is kept for tsela and ‘vault’ for raqia: a reader who meets ‘living water’ in a purification rite for a healed person, and meets it again offered to a woman whose whole life needed healing, gets to notice the echo the flattened versions erase. → first discussed at Lev 14:5