Pool of Siloam

Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem
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The Pool of Siloam and Lower (Old) Pool

The term Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: בְּרֵכַת הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, Modern: Brekhat hashiloaḥ, Tiberian: Bərēḵaṯ hašŠiloḥ, Levantine Arabic: بِرْكَة سِلْوَان‎, romanized: Birka Silwān) refers to several rock-cut pools located southeast of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The pools were fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, carried there by the Siloam tunnel.

The Lower Pool or "Old Pool" (הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה הַיְשָׁנָ֑ה, according to Isaiah 22:11) was historically known in Palestinian Arabic as Birket el-ḥamra "the Red Pool."

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