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Lexicon :: Strong's H1295 - bᵊrēḵâ

Aa
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.
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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

H1295

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:13 - And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and came face to face with them by the pool of Gibeon; and they took up their position, facing one another on opposite sides of the pool.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:38 - And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:20 - Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:14 - Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:15 - And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:16 - By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:6 - I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:9 - And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:11 - And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8 - But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
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