Cisterns
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be
broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel
broken at the cistern....
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make [an agreement] with me [by] a present, and come out to
me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;...
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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters, [and] hewed them out cisterns,
broken cisterns, that can hold no water....
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria,
Make [an agreement] with me by a present, and come out to me,
and [then] eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of
his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his
cistern:...
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sis'-tern:
Use of Terms
1. General
2. Wells or Cylindrical Cisterns
3. Private Cisterns
4. Public Cisterns
5. Pools and Aqueducts
6. Figurative Uses
LITERATURE
Several words are rendered by "cistern," "well," "pool," the
relations of which in the King James Version and the Revised
Version (British and American) are as follows:
Use o...
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General scriptures concerning
Isa 36:16
-Broken
Jer 2:13
-FIGURATIVE
2Ki 18:31; Pr 5:15; Ec 12:6...
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a receptacle for water, either conducted from an external
spring or proceeding from rain-fall. The dryness of the summer
months and the scarcity of springs in Judea made cisterns a
necessity, and they are frequent throughout the whole of Syria
and Israel. On the long-forgotten way from Jericho to Bethel,
"broken cisterns" of high antiquity are...
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the rendering of a Hebrew word _bor_, which means a
receptacle
for water conveyed to it; distinguished from _beer_,
which
denotes a place where water rises on the spot (Jer.
2:13; Prov.
5:15; Isa. 36:16), a fountain. Cisterns are frequently
mentioned
in Scripture. The scarcity of springs in Israel made
it
necessary to collect rain-water i...
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Bor, a dug pit for receiving water conducted from a spring
or the rainfall. (See CONDUIT.) The dryness between May and
September in Israel makes reservoirs necessary; of which the
larger are called "pools," the smaller "cisterns." The rocky
soil facilitates their construction. The top, with stonework
and a round opening, has often a wheel for ...
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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out
of thine own well....
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