Pool, Pond
Pool, Pond
POOL, POND.gam, a collection of standing water, is distinguished from miqweh, a place into which water flows, or is led (Exo 7:19). The former may denote the water left in the hollows when the inundation of the Nile subsides, and the latter, reservoirs (cf. Gen 1:10, Lev 11:36). AV [Note: Authorized Version.] tr. [Note: translate or translation.] gam pond, in Exo 7:19; Exo 8:6; RV [Note: Revised Version.] uniformly pool (Isa 14:23 etc.). brikah (2Sa 2:13; 2Sa 4:12 etc.) is = Arab [Note: Arabic.] , birkeh, an artificial pond or tank. It is applied to great reservoirs constructed to furnish water for cities, or for irrigation, like that at Gibeon (2Sa 2:18), those at Hebron (2Sa 4:12), and at Jerusalem (2Ki 18:17), etc.; and also to large basins, such as lend freshness to the courts of the houses in Damascus. The usual LXX [Note: Septuagint.] equivalent is kolumbthra, the word used in NT for the pools of Bethesda and Siloam (Joh 5:2; Joh 9:7). In Isa 19:10 read with RV [Note: Revised Version.] all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul. See also Heshbon.
W. Ewino.