Pond
Pond
is the rendering in the A. V. of , agam (literally a collection of water), in Exo 7:19; Exo 8:15, where it probably denotes the putrescent reservoirs or swampy pools left by the inundation of the Nile (Sept. , Vulg. paludes). Again, in Isa 19:10, , which the A.V. translates ponds for fish, following the Vulg. lacunas ad capiendos pisces, Diodati and Luther, is rendered by the Sept. . This rendering is supported by the authority of Gesenius, Vatablus, and Ewald, alle Lohnarbeiter ( .= they that earn wages), sind seelenbetrbt; being taken as equivalent to (Job 30:25), to be sad. Many interpreters, however, think that it designates fish-ponds. We have abundant evidence from the paintings in the tombs that the Egyptians were celebrated for their fish-ponds, and it appears that almost every villa possessed one, where the master of the house occasionally amused himself in fishing. The Jews, it seems, likewise constructed similar ponds, as in describing his bride in the Canticles (Son 7:4) Solomon says, Thine eyes are like the fish- pools in Heshbon. SEE FISH. The word occurs several times of marshy pools, in contradistinction to the dry sands of the desert (Psa 107:35; Psa 114:8); standing water (Isa 35:7; Isa 41:18), a pool. Such pools being commonly reedy, it is rendered reeds (Jer 51:32). SEE POOL.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Pond
POND.See Pool.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Pond
See CISTERN; POOL.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Pond
Pond. The ponds of Egypt, Exo 7:19; Exo 13:5, were, doubtless, water left by the inundation of the Nile. Ponds for fish mentioned in Isa 19:10.