(Shelah) Pool
בְּרֵכָהStrong’s H7975berekhah (be-re-khah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Berekhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “shelah” and “shiloah”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, 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.”
Meaning
- Pool, pond
- Shiloah or Siloah = "sent"
How it's translated
- shelah 1
- shiloah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
בְּרֵכָה berekhah · (Shelah) Pool
pool, pond Combined with she.lach (שֶׁ֫לַח "Shelah" H7975A)
שִׁלֹחַ shiloach · Shiloah
Shiloah or Siloah = "sent" a fountain just southeast of Jerusalem Another name of she.lach (שֶׁ֫לַח "Shelah" H7975A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.