Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pool and spring outside Jerusalem (John ix:7), from Late Latin, from New Testament Greek, from Hebrew shiloach, literally "sending forth," from shalach "to send."
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 144
Land area (2000): 1.226619 sq. miles (3.176929 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.013968 sq. miles (0.036176 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.240587 sq. miles (3.213105 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70932
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.535691 N, 83.080443 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Siloam
Wikipedia
Siloam (Hebrew: Shiloah; Arabic: Silwan) is an ancient site in Jerusalem, located in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, south of the Old City. According to the Hebrew Bible, Siloam was built around the " serpent-stone", Zoheleth, where Adonijah gave his feast in the time of Solomon. It is the site of the Pool of Siloam and the Tower of Siloam, both mentioned in the New Testament.
Siloam most often refers to the ancient site of Siloam in Jerusalem. Articles directly related to Siloam in Jerusalem include:
- Pool of Siloam
- Siloam inscription
- Siloam tunnel
- Tower of Siloam
Siloam may also refer to:
Usage examples of "siloam".
It is the story of the man lying by the pool of Siloam, who wanted healing but had no one to lower him into the pool.
He is one of those on whom the tower of Siloam fell not--he is such a one as Jesus Christ found not in all Samaria, who, in his own soul, throws the first stone at the woman taken in adultery.
Darwin should not have known that though the my excised in 1866 was the most technically categorical, the others were in reality just as guilty, though no tower of Siloam in the shape of excision fell upon them.
Down nearly at the foot, close by the bed of the Cedron, he came to the intersection with the road leading south to the village of Siloam and the pool of that name.