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Reference: Pool, Pond

Hastings

?gam, a collection of standing water, is distinguished from miqweh, a place into which water flows, or is led (Ex 7:19). The former may denote the water left in the hollows when the inundation of the Nile subsides, and the latter, reservoirs (cf. Ge 1:10; Le 11:36). AV tr '?gam 'pond,' in Ex 7:19; 8:6; RV uniformly 'pool' (Isa 14:23 etc.). b?r

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