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.<\/p>\n
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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. … Continue reading “Pool, Pond”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}