Is distinguished from a pond, in being filled by springs or running water. Also, a pwll or port.
·noun A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle. II. Pool ·noun Any gambling or commerci...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A pond, or reservoir, for holding water (Heb. berekhah; modern Arabic, birket), an artificial cister...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Pools, like the tanks of India, are in many parts of Palestine and Syria the only resource for water...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·- A pool of salt water. ...
In the reign of Henry VIII. certain goods are described as having been delivered at St. Katherine's ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
a stinking puddle. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Sent or sending. Here a notable miracle was wrought by our Lord in giving sight to the blind (John 9...
Heb. shelah; i.e., "the dart", Neh. 3:15; with the art. shiloah, "sending," Isa. 8:6 (comp. 7:3)=Sil...
properly "the pool of Shelach." (Nehemiah 3:15) [Siloam] ...
Mentioned by Stow, p. 16, as having been in existence in 1244, but in his time stopped up, and the s...