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Cistern in Smiths Bible Dictionary

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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Cistern in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Cistern in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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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Cistern Scripture - Proverbs 5:15

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well....

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Cistern Scripture - Ecclesiastes 12:6

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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Cistern Scripture - 2 Kings 18:31

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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Cistern Scripture - Isaiah 36:16

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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Cistern in Naves Topical Bible

General scriptures concerning Isa 36:16 -Broken Jer 2:13 -FIGURATIVE 2Ki 18:31; Pr 5:15; Ec 12:6...

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Cisterns Scripture - Jeremiah 2:13

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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Cistern in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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