Occurrences
Bᵉrêkâh occurs 17 times in 15 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (2), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (2), Nehemiah (3), Ecclesiastes (1), Song of Songs (1), Isaiah (4), Nahum (1)
- 2 Samuel 2:13 — And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met together by the pool (בְּרֵכַ֥ת) of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 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 pool (הַבְּרֵכָה֙), and the other on the other side of the pool.
- 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 pool, and the other on the other side of the pool (הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה).
- 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 (הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה) in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
- 1 Kings 22:38 — And one washed the chariot in the pool (בְּרֵכַ֣ת) of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word of the LORD which he spake.
- 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 Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool (הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה), which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
- 2 Kings 20:20 — And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool (הַבְּרֵכָה֙), and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- Nehemiah 2:14 — Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool (בְּרֵכַ֖ת): but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
- 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 locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool (בְּרֵכַ֤ת) of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
- 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 (הַבְּרֵכָה֙) that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
- Ecclesiastes 2:6 — I made me pools (בְּרֵכ֣וֹת) of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
- Song of Songs 7:4 — Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools (בְּרֵכ֣וֹת) in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- 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 (הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה) in the highway of the fuller’s field;
- 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 (הַבְּרֵכָ֖ה).
- Isaiah 22:11 — Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool (הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה): but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
- Isaiah 36:2 — And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool (הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה) in the highway of the fuller’s field.
- Nahum 2:8 — But Nineveh is of old like a pool (כִבְרֵֽכַת) of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.