berecha · pool

What it means

berecha (בְּרֵכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pool”.

A man-made reservoir of water.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A basin of water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pool ×15
• pools ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×3
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Nahum×1

• 2 Samuel 2:13

  And Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon together; and they sat down, these on this side of the pool and those on that side of the pool.

• 2 Samuel 4:12

  David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them beside the pool in Hebron. But the head of Ish-bosheth they took and buried in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

• 1 Kings 22:38

  They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood —and the prostitutes bathed there— according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• 2 Kings 20:20

  The rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I passed on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, and there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  And the Fountain Gate Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired; he built it and roofed it and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.

• Nehemiah 3:16

  After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, repaired as far as opposite the tombs of David, and as far as the artificial pool, and as far as the house of the mighty men.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made for myself pools of water to water from them a forest sprouting trees.

• Song of Songs 7:4

  Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

• Isaiah 7:3

  And YHWH said to Isaiah, “Go out, please, to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field,

• Isaiah 22:9

  And the breaches of the city of David you saw, that they were many; and you collected the waters of the lower pool.

• Isaiah 22:11

  And a reservoir you made between the two walls for the waters of the old pool; but you did not look to the one who made it, and the one who formed it from afar you did not see.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah with a large force; and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.

• Nahum 2:8

  And Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her days, and they are fleeing. “Stop, stop,” but there is no one who turns back.

And 2 more times.