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Pool of Siloam in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Shelach in Nehemiah 3:15, KJV "Siloah," "Shiloah" (Isaiah 8:16), Siloam (John 9:7; John 9:11). Now Silwan. Every other pool has lost its Bible designation. Siloam, a small suburban tank, alone retains it. It is a regularly built pool or tank (bereekah) near the fountain gate, the stairs that go down from the city of David (S. of the temple mo...

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Siloam Scripture - John 9:11

He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight....

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Siloam Scripture - Luke 13:4

Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?...

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Siloam Scripture - John 9:7

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing....

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Siloam in Naves Topical Bible

Also called SHILOAH and SILOAH -A pool in Jerusalem Ne 3:15; Isa 8:6 -Jesus directs the blind man whom he had healed to wash in Joh 9:1-11 -Tower of, in the wall of Jerusalem, falls and kills eighteen people Lu 13:4...

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Siloam in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

si-lo'-am, si-lo'-am, si-lo'-a, she'-la, shi-lo'-a: (1) me ha-shiloach (shiloach or shilloach is a passive form and means "sent" or "conducted") "the waters of (the) Shiloah" (Isa 8:6). (2) berekhath ha-shelach, "the pool of (the) Shelah" (the King James Version "Siloah") (Neh 3:15). (3) ten kolumbethran tou (or ton) Siloam, "the pool of Siloa...

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Pool of Siloam in Easton's Bible Dictionary

sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9:7-11). It has been identified with the Birket Silwan in the lower Tyropoeon valley, to the south-east of the hill of Zion. The water which flows into this pool intermittingly by a subterranean channel springs from the "Fountain of the Virg...

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Siloam in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(sent). Shiloach, Isa 8:6 Siloah, Ne 3:15 Siloam, Joh 9:11 Siloam is one of the few undisputed localities in the topography of Jerusalem; still retaining its old name (with Arabic modification, Silwan), while every other pool has lost its Bible designation. This is the more remarkable as it is a mere suburban tank of no great size, and for man...

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