- Fish-pools
- (Cant. 7:4) should be simply "pools," as in the Revised Version. The reservoirs near Heshbon (q.v.) were probably stocked with fish (2 Sam. 2:13; 4:12; Isa. 7:3; 22:9, 11).
Easton's Bible Dictionary. M.G. Easton. 1897.
Fish-pools
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