בְּרֵכָה
bᵉrêkâh
Meaning
“pool”
BDB pool, pond
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8 books · rare
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First appears: 2 Samuel 2:13
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בְּרֵכָה
8 books
2 Samuel 2:13
בְּרֵכַ֥ת הַ/בְּרֵכָה֙ הַ/בְּרֵכָ֖ה
Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them 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.
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1 Kings 22:38
בְּרֵכַ֣ת
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the prostitutes washed themselves [there]); according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke.
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2 Kings 18:17
הַ/בְּרֵכָ֣ה
The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. 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.
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Nehemiah 2:14
בְּרֵכַ֖ת
Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
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Ecclesiastes 2:6
בְּרֵכ֣וֹת
I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.
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Song of Solomon 7:4
בְּרֵכ֣וֹת
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
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Isaiah 7:3
הַ/בְּרֵכָ֣ה
Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field.
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Nahum 2:8
כִ/בְרֵֽכַת
But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.
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