Strong H7975H7975Aשֶׁ֫לַח

Shelah

Transliteration: shillôach shelach
Pronunciation: {shee-lo'-akh} sheh'-lakh
Morphology: Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

Shelah, also called Shiloah, the King's Pool, or Siloam, was a pool in Jerusalem fed by the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah's Tunnel (Neh. 3:15; Isa. 8:6; Neh. 2:14; Luke 13:4; John 9:7, 11).

Meaning of the name

Shelah = "sent"

General definition

The second form is in imitation of {H7974 } used in ; from H7971; rill;
{Shiloach} a fountain of Jerusalem: - {Shiloah} Siloah.

In the biblical story

Shelah

Pool and tunnel in Jerusalem

Shelah, also called Shiloah, the King's Pool, or Siloam, was a pool in Jerusalem fed by the Gihon Spring via Hezekiah's Tunnel (Neh. 3:15; Isa. 8:6; Neh. 2:14; Luke 13:4; John 9:7, 11).

In the Bible

Strong H7975A appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

siloah1

First verses

Nehemiah 3:15
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.