בְּרֵכָה berekhah

Hebrew word for “pool” · Strong’s H1295 · used 17 times in 15 verses

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Meaning

pool, pond

Senses in the lexicon

• pool (16)
• (Shelah) Pool (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for berekhah in context, with how often each is used:

• pool 14
• pools 2
• like a pool 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 3 (2), Isaiah 22 (2), 2 Samuel 2 (1), 2 Samuel 4 (1), 1 Kings 22 (1), 2 Kings 18 (1), 2 Kings 20 (1), Nehemiah 2 (1), Ecclesiastes 2 (1), Song of Solomon 7 (1)

Forms

• הברכה 10
• ברכת 4
• ברכות 2
• כברכת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with berekhah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• תְּעָלָה tealah “conduit” 4
• מְסִלָּה mesillah “highway” 3
• מַי mayim “water” 5
• כָּבַס kavas “to wash” 3
• עֶלְיוֹן elyon “Most High” 3
• דָּוִד david “David” 5
• חִזְקִיָּהוּ chizqiyyah “Hezekiah” 3
• פֶּלֶךְ pelekh “district” 2
• עָמַד amad “to stand” 4
• רַבְשָׁקֵה ravshaqeh “Rabshakeh” 2
• לָכִישׁ lakhish “Lachish” 2
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 3

Key verses

The verses using berekhah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Samuel 2:13 — 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…
• 2 Samuel 4:12 — 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…
• 1 Kings 22:38 — 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…
• 2 Kings 18:17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to…
• 2 Kings 20:20 — 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…
• Nehemiah 3:15 — But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the…
• Nehemiah 3:16 — After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that…
• Song of Solomon 7:4 — Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward…
• Isaiah 7:3 — Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the…
• Isaiah 22:9 — 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.
• Isaiah 22:11 — 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…
• Nahum 2:8 — 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.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.