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# בְּרֵכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1295

**pool** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1295/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּרֵכָה: n.f. pool, pond [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1295/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pool, pond (הברכה SI5; Arabic بِرْكَةٌ; Sab. ברכת Sab.Denkm.73; Aramaic בְּרֵיכְתָּא)—ב׳ 2 S 2:13(×2) 4:12 2 K 18:17 (= Is 36:2) 20:20 Ne 3:16 Is 7:3; 22:9, 11; cstr. בְּרֵכַת 2 S 2:13 1 K 22:38 Ne 2:14; 3:15 Na 2:9; pl. בְּרֵכוֹת Ec 2:6 Ct 7:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the pool (8); pool (5); \[are\] pools (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.2.6/#tree)

עָשִׂ֥יתִי לִ֖י בְּרֵכ֣וֹת מָ֑יִם לְהַשְׁק֣וֹת מֵהֶ֔ם יַ֖עַר צוֹמֵ֥חַ עֵצִֽים׃

*Word for word:* I.made for myself pools of.water to water from them a.forest sprouting trees

*JPS 1917:* I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the wood springing up with trees;

[Isaiah 22:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.22.9/#tree)

וְאֵ֨ת בְּקִיעֵ֧י עִיר־דָּוִ֛ד רְאִיתֶ֖ם כִּי־רָ֑בּוּ וַֽתְּקַבְּצ֔וּ אֶת־מֵ֥י הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה הַתַּחְתּוֹנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.breaches of.the.city of.David you.saw (dm).that they.were.many and you.gathered (et) the.waters of the.pool (the) lower

*JPS 1917:* And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1295/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).