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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(hole). Artificial reservoir for water. Very necessary in the East and sometimes built very elaborately and expensively (Eccl. 2:6⁶I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: (Ecclesiastes 2:6); Isa. 42:15¹⁵I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools. (Isaiah 42:15)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

See the various names by which they are called.

Strong’s Dictionary of Greek Words:

Number:

2861 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Greek:

κολυμβήθρα

Transliteration:

kolumbethra

Phonic:

kol-oom-bay’-thrah

Meaning:

a diving-place, i.e. pond for bathing (or swimming)

KJV Usage:

pool