Luke 13:4; John 9:7.
Siloé (Heb. Shilôaj , sent” or “issued”; Shelaj, perhaps “dart” or “branch”; Gr. Silí‡ám). 1. Pond fed by an aqueduct that came from the Gihon spring.* Said pond was located, according to Josephus, in the southern part of Jerusalem, where there is still a pond of about 17.5 m by 5.5 m called Birket Silwân (fig 465). It receives water from the Fuente de la Virgen, in the Cedrón Valley, through a tunnel dug into the rock about 533 m long, 0.61 m wide, and between 1.50 and 4.60 m deep. high (fig 278). It is generally believed that the tunnel (fig 466) and the original source were built by King Hezekiah (2Ki 20:20; 2Ch 32:30). In 1880, a 6-line Hebrew inscription (fig 467) was discovered on the tunnel wall about 6 m from the pool outlet. It tells how the tunnel was dug and offers valuable information about its measurements: 465. The Siloam pool in Jerusalem. 466. The Siloam tunnel at the point where the diggers (mentioned in the inscription) met while digging from each end. “ (the tunnel) was opened. And this is the way he opened it: -While (they were) still axe(es) each man in front of his partner, and while there were still three cubits to dig, the voice of a man calling his partner, because there was a deviation in the rock to the right 1097 . And when the tunnel was finished opening, the stonemasons carved (the rock), each man in front of his partner. peak against peak: and the water ran from the reservoir for 1,200 cubits, and the height of the rock above the head(s) of the stonemasons was 100 cubits.” Maps XVII, XVIII. Bib.: FJ-GJ v.4.1, 2; WF Albright, ANET 321. 467. The Siloam inscription from the time of Hezekiah, now in a museum in Istanbul. 2. Tower mentioned in Luk 13:4 It was probably a building that was located near the Siloam pool.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
name of a pond and a tower. 1. ® Guijon. 2. Building mentioned by Jesus, in Lk 13, 4, which killed eighteen people, possibly some tower of the wall of Jerusalem.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
A pool or cistern located within the walled city of Jerusalem, in the southern part of the Tiropeon valley (2Ki 20:20; 2Ch 32:30). The aqueduct leads from the intermittent springs of Gihon (Jerusalem’s most important water source) through the Rock of Ophel to the pool called the Siloam Cistern.
In 1880, a native boy wading through the tunnel noticed an inscription which he reported to his teacher, Herr Conrad Schick, who made the information available to scholars. The inscription was deciphered by AH Sayce, with the help of others. It consists of six lines written in ancient (Canaanite) Hebrew in pointed style characters.
The Siloam inscription is important both for its fascinating account of the construction of the aqueduct and for providing a baseline for comparison of the dates of other inscriptions. It was to the pool of Siloam that Jesus sent the blind man (John 9:7). He obeyed and came back seeing.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
It is mentioned in Joh 9:7. It is a well and a pond (or several ponds), but not really a fountain. The corresponding fountain was that of Gihon (cf. above: Kidron Valley), which was the fountain of Jerusalem, although it was outside the walls. In warlike confrontations there was the danger that the enemy would infest the water or divert it, punishing the city with thirst.
For this reason, on the occasion of the Assyrian attack in 701 BC, King Hezekiah of Judah had a tunnel opened from the source of Gijón through the rock, which moved the outlet of the water within the space protected by the walls. That subterranean channel, or tunnel, the new well, and the pool were called siloach (Siloam), meaning “the water sent.”
In 1881, an inscription was discovered in the tunnel expressing the joy of the excavators for not having made a mistake, since the tunnel was dug from both sides.
After the new well was built, access to the Gihon spring proper was sealed; the memory, however, that Siloam was not the true source had perhaps already disappeared by the time of Jesus. Hence the name †œSiloam† could perfectly be interpreted as the place of the fountain. Today the Gijón fountain is also open again.
The waters of Siloam were clean and good to drink. For good reasons and for being “living water” — that is, current —, the fountain became a symbol of the messianic time; hence the water from the fountain was poured at the Feast of Tabernacles. And there may also be the reason why in Jua 9:7 the toponym of Siloé is given the meaning of “sent one,” the text wanting to refer to Jesus as the sent Messiah.
Near Siloam there was a tower in the time of Jesus, which may have been built to protect the spring. That tower collapsed during the last Feast of Tabernacles that Jesus spent in Jerusalem.
Source: Dictionary of Bible Geography
(the one who sends).
The Pool of Siloam, within the walls of Jerusalem, receives the waters of the Rogel Fountain, through a 600-meter tunnel built by Hezekiah in the 8th century BC.
(Neh 3:5, Isa 8:6, Jos.l5:6).
– In this pool the blind man healed by Jesus washed his eyes, Jua 9:7, Jua 9:11.
– Tower of Siloam, Luke 13:4, was part of the walls of Jerusalem.
– The city of Siloam is the modern Silwan village.
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
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Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
(Send). Pool in Jerusalem where the Lord Jesus commanded a man born blind to wash, who “washed and returned seeing” (John 9:1-11). It was formed with the waters of the †¢Gihon spring, a spring on the outskirts of Jerusalem, today known as the †œFountain of the Virgin† that reaches it through the tunnel built by Hezekiah (2 Kings 20:20; 2 Chr 32:30 ). Archaeologists have verified that the pond predates the construction of the tunnel. Apparently, in the time of Solomon an open aqueduct was built that bordered the eastern part of the City of David, bringing the waters to the pool. Hezekiah built the tunnel so that the waters would not serve the enemy in case of siege of the city. The construction was made following a natural crack in the rock, which is why it is sinuous, with an extension of 533 m long. Two teams of men were put to work at opposite ends of the hill, until they met. In 1880 a boy who got into this tunnel found some inscriptions in Hebrew that testify to the way in which the teams listened to each other’s voices and the sound of their picks, until they met face to face inside the hill.
The waters of S. †œrun meekly† . Isaiah compares the Davidic monarchy with those waters and warns that because the people had rejected it and sought other alliances, “waters of rivers, mighty and many… the king of Assyria” would come upon them (Isa 8:6-7). In Nehemiah’s time reconstruction work was done in the area of S.’s pool (Neh 3:15). It is a Jewish tradition that in the midst of the Feast of Tabernacles water was brought from the pool, in a golden vessel, which many associate with the words of the Lord Jesus, said “on the last and great day of the Feast”: “If If anyone is thirsty, come to me and drink† (Joh 7:37).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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see, JERUSALEM
vet, Pool of Jerusalem (Jn. 9:7); Isaiah speaks of the slow waters of him (Is. 8: 6); it was in the vicinity of the royal garden (Neh. 3:15). Josephus places it at the end of the Tyropoeon valley, near a bend in the ancient wall, below the hill of Ophel (Wars 5:4, 1-2). This name is preserved in that of Birket Silouãn, the site of the old pool. It is a rectangular cavity, measuring 17 m. in length and 5.5 m. wide, and almost 6 m. deep. The western side of this masonry work is badly worn. The water gushed into a small cavity, dug high in the rock; It is the arrival of the channel that carries the water from the Fountain of the Virgin (Gihón). In the lower part of the pond, the water comes out through a small channel that carries the waters to irrigate the orchards of the Cedrón Valley. In 1880, a boy entered the conduit that carries water from Gihon to the pool, discovering on its walls a six-line inscription, in Heb. Very pure; the date of this inscription is supposed to be from the time of Ahaz or Hezekiah. Since erosion had erased part of the first three lines, it is difficult to determine some of the characters, but the meaning is evident. It is about the description of the drilling of the tunnel from both ends, and of the meeting, at its central point, of the workers, whose beaks collided with each other. The top of the rock was 100 cubits above the miners’ heads. The characters give evidence that the Jerusalem scribes were already accustomed to writing on papyrus or parchment. The tower of Siloé, mentioned in Lc. 13:4, must have been on the crest of Ophel, near Siloam. (See JERUSALEM, b, B.)
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
Underground aqueduct, half a kilometer long and one meter wide, built by Hezekiah (around 700 BC) to ensure water to the city of Jerusalem in the event of a siege and which carried water from the spring of Gihon to the pool also called Siloam. Jesus healed a man born blind and ordered him to wash at the Siloam spring, which means “envoy” (Jn 9,7), in which the evangelist finds great symbolism: Jesus Christ, the great envoy of the Father (Jn 5 .36), is the pool itself; faith in Jesus Christ and purification in baptismal waters, the living waters of the Spirit, cleanse us from all sin, make us reborn to a new life (Jn 3,5). The location of the tower of Siloé is unknown, to which Jesus Christ alludes and in whose collapse 18 Galileans perished (Lk 13,4). The town of Siloé was practically considered as a neighborhood of Jerusalem, to the Northwest.
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FERNANDEZ RAMOS, Felipe (Dir.), Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth, Editorial Monte Carmelo, Burbos, 2001
Source: Dictionary of Jesus of Nazareth
Pool of Jerusalem where the waters of the fountain* of Gijón were collected, channeled through the interior of the walls, in the lower part of the city, already in the time of King Hezekiah (cf. 2 Kings 20,10; Is 22,21 ; Neh 3,15). In this pool, whose name is theologically identified with Jesus (it would mean the Envoy), the miracle of the man born blind is situated: his waters serve to give light to his eyes (Jn 9,7.11). In the evangelical tradition, the place of the swimming pool is even more famous for the tower that should have been built next to it and to which Jesus alludes in a context where he overcomes…