Pool
אֲגַםStrong’s H0098agam (a-gam)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Agam is the Hebrew word usually translated “pool of”, “ponds their” and “ponds”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.”
Meaning
- Pool, troubled pooltroubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes · any pool, pond · swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es)
How it's translated
- a pool of 2
- ponds their 1
- the ponds 1
- into a pool of 1
- and reed-pools of 1
- a pool 1
- and pools 1
- the reed-marshes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 8:5And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 107:35He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
- Psalms 114:8Which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters.
- Isaiah 14:23I 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.
- Isaiah 35:7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
- Isaiah 41:18I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲגַם agam · pool
1) pool, troubled pool 1a) troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes 1b) any pool, pond 1c) swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pool” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POOL, noun
[Latin palus; Gr. probably from setting, standing, like Latin stagnum, or from issuing, as a spring.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.