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CISTERNS @ kjv@2Kings:18:31; kjv@2Chronicles:26:10; kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:6; kjv@Jeremiah:2:13

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CISTERN - C>@ - a receptacle for water, either conducted from an external spring or proceeding from rain-fall. The dryness of the summer months and the scarcity of springs in Judea made cisterns a necessity, and they are frequent throughout the whole of Syria and Palestine. On the long-forgotten way from Jericho to Bethel, "broken cisterns" of high antiquity are found at regular intervals. Jerusalem depends mainly for water upon its cisterns, of which almost every private house possesses one or more, excavated in the rock on which the city is built. The cisterns have usually a round opening at the top, sometimes built up with stonework above and furnished with a curb and a wheel for a bucket. kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:6) Empty cisterns were sometimes used as prisons and places of confinement. Joseph was cast into a "pit," kjv@Genesis:37:22) as was Jeremiah. kjv@Jeremiah:38:6)

easton:

Cistern @ the rendering of a Hebrew word bor, which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it; distinguished from beer, which denotes a place where water rises on the spot kjv@Jeremiah:2:13; kjv@Proverbs:5:15; kjv@Isaiah:36:16), a fountain. Cisterns are frequently mentioned in Scripture. The scarcity of springs in Palestine made it necessary to collect rain-water in reservoirs and cisterns kjv@Numbers:21:22). (
See WELL.) Empty cisterns were sometimes used as prisons kjv@Jeremiah:38:6; kjv@Lamentations:3:53; kjv@Psalms:40:2 kjv@Psalms:69:15). The "pit" into which Joseph was cast kjv@Genesis:37:24) was a beer or dry well. There are numerous remains of ancient cisterns in all parts of Palestine.

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CISTERN @
- General scriptures concerning kjv@Isaiah:36:16
- Broken kjv@Jeremiah:2:13

- FIGURATIVE kjv@2Kings:18:31; kjv@Proverbs:5:15; kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:6 .
See WELLS

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kjv@STRING:Gob <HITCHCOCK>@ cistern; grasshopper - HITCHCOCK-G

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CISTERNS @ kjv@2Kings:18:31; kjv@2Chronicles:26:10; kjv@Ecclesiastes:12:6; kjv@Jeremiah:2:13

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H1356 <STRHEB>@ גּב gêb gabe From H1461; a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug): - {beam} {ditch} pit.

H1374 <STRHEB>@ גּבים gêbîym gay-beem' Plural of H1356; cisterns; {Gebim} a place in Palestine: - Gebim.

H5626 <STRHEB>@ סרה sirâh see-raw' From H5493; departure; {Sirah} a cistern so called: - Sirah. See also H5518.

H877 <STRHEB>@ בּאר bô'r bore From H874; a cistern: - cistern.

H953 <STRHEB>@ בּור bôr bore From H952 (in the sense of H877); a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or prison): - {cistern} {dungeon} {fountain} {pit} well.

G5421 <STRGRK>@ φρέαρ phrear freh'-ar Of uncertain derivation; a hole in the ground (dug for obtaining or holding water or other purposes) that is a cistern or well; figuratively an abyss (as a prison): - well pit.

G999 <STRGRK>@ βόθυνος bothunos both'-oo-nos Akin to G900; a hole (in the ground); specifically a cistern: - ditch pit.