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Lexicon :: Strong's H1295 - bᵊrēḵâ

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בְּרֵכָה
Transliteration
bᵊrēḵâ
Pronunciation
ber-ay-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 285c

Strong’s Definitions

בְּרֵכָה bᵉrêkâh, ber-ay-kaw'; from H1288; a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place):—(fish-) pool.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H1295 in the following manner: pool (16x), fishpools (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H1295 in the following manner: pool (16x), fishpools (1x).
  1. pool, pond

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּרֵכָה bᵉrêkâh, ber-ay-kaw'; from H1288; a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place):—(fish-) pool.
STRONGS H1295: Abbreviations
בְּרֵכָה noun feminine pool, pond (הברכה SI5; Arabic bdb014001; Sabean ברכת SabDenkm73; Aramaic בְּרֵיכְתָּא) — ב׳ 2 Samuel 2:13 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 4:12; 2 Kings 18:17 (= Isaiah 36:2) 2 Kings 20:20; Nehemiah 3:16; Isaiah 7:3; Isaiah 22:9, 11; construct בְּרֵכַת 2 Samuel 2:13; 1 Kings 22:38; Nehemiah 2:14; Nehemiah 3:15; Nahum 2:9; plural בְּרֵכוֺת Ecclesiastes 2:6; Songs 7:5.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

2 Samuel

2:13; 2:13; 4:12

1 Kings

22:38

2 Kings

18:17; 20:20

Nehemiah

2:14; 3:15; 3:16

Ecclesiastes

2:6

Song of Songs

7:5

Isaiah

7:3; 22:9; 22:11; 36:2

Nahum

2:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1295 matches the Hebrew בְּרֵכָה (bᵊrēḵâ),
which occurs 17 times in 15 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - Joab [David’s nephew] the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David also went out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. They sat down, with one group on one side of the pool and the other group on the other side of the pool.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them beside the pool in Hebron. But they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Hebron in the tomb of Abner [his relative].
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - They washed the chariot by the pool [on the outskirts] of Samaria, where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up his blood, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had spoken.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 -

Then the king of Assyria sent [fn]the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rabshakeh [his highest officials] with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they went up and arrived, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the road of the Fuller’s Field.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 -

The rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might, and how he made the [Siloam] pool and the aqueduct and brought water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I passed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no place for the animal that I was riding to pass.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 -

Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, official of the district of Mizpah repaired the [fn]Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it [with a roof], and set up its doors with its bolts and its bars, and [he rebuilt] the wall of the Pool of Shelah (Siloam) by the King’s Garden as far as the stairs that descend [the eastern slope] from [the section of Jerusalem known as] the City of David.

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16 - After him [fn]Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, official of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired [the wall] as far as [a point] in front of the tombs of David, and as far as the artificial pool and the house of the guards.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made pools of water for myself from which to water the forest and make the trees bud.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes the [sparkling] pools of Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

Which looks toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 -

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the [fn]Fuller’s Field;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9 -

You saw that the breaches

In the wall of the City of David [the citadel of Zion] were many;

You collected [within the city’s walls] the waters of the Lower Pool (Siloam).

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11 -

You also made a reservoir between the two walls

For the waters of the [fn]Old Pool,

But you did not look to its Maker,

Nor did you recognize Him who planned it long ago.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh [his military commander] from Lachish [the Judean fortress commanding the road from Egypt] to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a large army. And he stood by the canal of the Upper Pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8 -

Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,

Now her inhabitants are fleeing;

“Stop! Stop!” [a few cry,]

But no one turns back.

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