Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1295
בְּרֵכָה
berekahber-ay-kaw'
(Shelah) Pool
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉrêkâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1295is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1295
a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place)
The King James renders it: (fish-) pool.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
berekah is rendered "(Shelah) Pool". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 2:13So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
2 Samuel 2:13בְּרֵכַ֥ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the pool10
- pool of4
- like a pool of1
- pools1
- pools of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּרִית | berith | covenant | Uses284 |
| בְּרָכָה | Berakah | blessing | Uses69 |
| בְּרִיחַ | beriach | bar | Uses40 |
| בְּרוֹשׁ | berosh | cypress | Uses20 |
| בְּרַם | beram | nevertheless | Uses5 |
| בְּרַךְ | berak | to bless | Uses5 |
| בְּרִי | beri | fat | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹם | berom | rich apparel | Uses1 |
| בְּרוֹת | beroth | cypress | Uses1 |
| בְּרִית | Berith | (Baal)-berith | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיאָה | beriah | creation | Uses1 |
| בְּרִיעִי | Berii | Beriite | Uses1 |
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה4
- הַבְּרֵכָה֙3
- הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה3
- בְּרֵכ֣וֹת2
- בְּרֵכַ֥ת1
- בְּרֵכַ֣ת1
- בְּרֵכַ֖ת1
- בְּרֵכַ֤ת1
- כִבְרֵֽכַת־1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular10HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcfsc
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
2 Samuel
four uses
So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.
- בְּרֵכַ֥תberekhatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pool of
- הַבְּרֵכָה֙haberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
- הַבְּרֵכָ֖הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- הַבְּרֵכָ֖הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
1 Kings
one use
And the chariot was washed at the pool of Samaria where the prostitutes bathed, and the dogs licked up Ahab’s blood, according to the word that the LORD had spoken.
- בְּרֵכַ֣תberekhatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pool of
2 Kings
two uses
Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- הַבְּרֵכָ֣הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
- הַבְּרֵכָה֙haberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
Nehemiah
three uses
Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
- בְּרֵכַ֖תberekhatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pool of
The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.
- בְּרֵכַ֤תberekhatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pool of
Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth-zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Mighty.
- הַבְּרֵכָה֙haberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
Ecclesiastes
one use
I built reservoirs to water my groves of flourishing trees.
- בְּרֵכ֣וֹתberekhotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pools of
Song of Solomon
one use
Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
- בְּרֵכ֣וֹתberekhotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: pools
Isaiah
four uses
Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
- הַבְּרֵכָ֣הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
- הַבְּרֵכָ֖הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
- הַבְּרֵכָ֣הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- הַבְּרֵכָ֣הhaberekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the pool
Nahum
one use
Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
- כִבְרֵֽכַת־khivrekhat-preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a pool of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.