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cisterns

Meaning of “cisterns”

Reservoirs or receptacles made to collect and hold water.

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2 occurrences1 verse1 bookKJV PCE

Some verses contain the word more than once.

First occurrence: Jeremiah 2:13

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Jeremiah 2:13
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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 2:13 · retained source text

For my people haue committed two euils: they haue forsaken me, the fountaine of liuing waters, and hewed them out cisternes, broken cisternes that can hold no water.

1611 marginal noteChap. 17.13. & 18.14 psal.36.9.

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1 · Direct Scripture definition

Jeremiah 2:13

Broken cisterns, that can hold no water directly supplies water-holding as the normal function whose failure marks them as broken. The description is non-exhaustive.

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