Strong's Hebrew · H1295

בְּרֵכָה

bᵉrêkâh · ber-ay-kaw'

Definitiona reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place)
Derivationfrom H1288 (בָרַךְ);
KJV usage(fish-) pool.
Occurrences17 in the KJV · 15 verses

בְּרֵכָה in Scripture

2 Samuel 2:13 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 Samuel 4:12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish -bosheth, and buried it in the sepulcher of Abner in Hebron. 1 Kings 22:38 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 18:17 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, which is in the highway of the fuller' s field. 2 Kings 20:20 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 2:14 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. Nehemiah 3:15 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, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David. Nehemiah 3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth -zur, unto the place over against the sepulchers of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty. Ecclesiastes 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: Song of Solomon 7:4 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 7:3 Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear -jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller' s field; Isaiah 22:9 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.
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