Topic
Pool
21 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 22:38Easton · Nave Of Samaria
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
- 2 Kings 18:17Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Upper pool
¶ And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool,…
- Nehemiah 3:15Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Siloam (Shelah)
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden,…
- Ecclesiastes 2:6Easton · Smith
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- Song of Songs 7:4Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Of Heshbon
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- Isaiah 22:9Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Lower pool
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
- John 9:7Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Siloam (Shelah)
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.
- John 9:11Easton · Nave Of Jerusalem — Siloam (Shelah)
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.
- 2 Samuel 2:13Easton
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 2 Kings 20:20Easton
¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- Nehemiah 2:14Easton
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
- Isaiah 14:23Easton
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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- Isaiah 22:11 Easton
- Isaiah 35:7 Easton
- Isaiah 36:2 Nave Of Jerusalem — Upper pool
- Isaiah 42:15 Smith
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 24:30 Smith
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 24:31 Smith
- John 5:2 Easton
- John 5:4 Easton
- John 5:7 Easton
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 18 references
A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cistern or tank. Mention is made of the pool of Gibeon (2 Sam. 2:13); the pool of Hebron (4:12); the upper pool at Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; 20:20); the pool of Samaria (1 Kings 22:38); the king’s pool (Neh. 2:14); the pool of Siloah (Neh. 3:15; Eccles. 2:6); the fishpools of Heshbon (Cant. 7:4); the “lower pool,” and the “old pool” (Isa. 22:9,11).
The “pool of Bethesda” (John 5:2,4, 7) and the “pool of Siloam” (John 9:7, 11) are also mentioned. Isaiah (35:7) says, “The parched ground shall become a pool.” This is rendered in the Revised Version “glowing sand,” etc. (marg., “the mirage,” etc.). The Arabs call the mirage “serab,” plainly the same as the Hebrew word sarab, here rendered “parched ground.” “The mirage shall become a pool”, i.e., the mock-lake of the burning desert shall become a real lake, “the pledge of refreshment and joy.” The “pools” spoken of in Isa. 14:23 are the marshes caused by the ruin of the canals of the Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Babylon.
The cisterns or pools of the Holy City are for the most part excavations beneath the surface. Such are the vast cisterns in the temple hill that have recently been discovered by the engineers of the Palestine Exploration Fund. These underground caverns are about thirty-five in number, and are capable of storing about ten million gallons of water. They are connected with one another by passages and tunnels.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.