Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
pool
Usage: pool, pond
brekah - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1295 — diasozo (“save”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1295 בְּרֵכָה (brekah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. brekah (ber-ay-kaw') n-f. 1. a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place) [from H1288] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include pool, which, and pools. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
brekah (ber-ay-kaw') n-f. 1. a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place) [from H1288] KJV: (fish-)pool. Root(s): H1288
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pool
Usage: pool, pond
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render brekah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together 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.
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1295.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together 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.
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And 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.
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
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.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1295, grouped by book.
Strong's H1295 is a Hebrew entry for H1295 בְּרֵכָה (brekah). brekah (ber-ay-kaw') n-f. 1. a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place) [from H1288]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H1295 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1295 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pool, which, and pools. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.