Pools
berakah. Reservoir for water, whether supplied by springs or
rain (Isaiah 42:15). The drying up of the pools involved
drought and national distress. The three pools of Solomon near
Bethlehem are famous, and still supply Jerusalem with water by
an aqueduct (Ecclesiastes 2:6). Partly hewn in the rock,
partly built with masonry; all lined with ce...
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I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that
bringeth forth trees:...
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[Who] passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the
rain also filleth the pools....
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I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their
herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up
the pools....
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon
their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and
upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and
[that] there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt,
both in [vessels of] wood, and in [vessels ...
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I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst
of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water....
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I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of
water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction,
saith the LORD of hosts....
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pool, pond, rez'-er-vwar, rez'-er-vwar ((1) berekhah,
"pool"; compare Arabic birkat, "pool"; compare berakhah,
"blessing," and Arabic barakat, "blessing"; (2) agham,
"pool," "marsh," "reeds"; compare Arabic 'ajam, "thicket,"
"jungle"; (3) miqwah, "reservoir," the King James Version
"ditch" (Isa 22:11); (4) miqweh, "pond," the King James
Versi...
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Of Samaria
1Ki 22:38
-Of Jerusalem
Upper pool
2Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2
Lower pool
Isa 22:9
Siloam (Shelah)
Ne 3:15; Joh 9:7,11
Of Heshbon
So 7:4...
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Pools, like the tanks of India, are in many parts of Israel
and Syria the only resource for water during the dry season,
and the failure of them involves drought and calamity. Isa
42:15 Of the various pools mentioned in Scripture, perhaps the
most celebrated are the pools of Solomon near Bethlehem called
by the Arabs el-Burak, from which an aq...
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