Words the Bible translates as reservoir
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- berekhahבְּרֵכָהa pool: an open basin of standing water, in the Bible almost always built to gather and hold a town's or a garden's water supply.
- miqvehמִקְוֶהhope: the good outcome someone waits for, and most often the one who is being waited on
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- a body of water that has collected in one place: a sea, a pool, or a holding tank
- Kue: a horse-breeding region on the coast of what is now southern Turkey
- miqvahמִקְוָהreservoirnot studied yet
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