Dictionary of Bible Themes » 4000 Creation » 4200 Places » 4221 cistern
A reservoir for storing water collected from rainfall or from a spring. When empty, it was used for a variety of purposes. The word is also employed in a figurative sense.
Cisterns were used to collect water
2 Chronicles 26:10 See also 2 Kings 18:31 pp Isaiah 36:16; Jeremiah 14:3
Other uses for cisterns
Jeremiah 38:6-13 See also Genesis 37:19-24,28-30; Jeremiah 41:4-7,9; Zechariah 9:11
Cisterns used as symbols
Cisterns as symbols of spiritual well-being
Jeremiah 2:13
Cisterns as symbols of physical well-being
See also Proverbs 5:15-19
See also
4236 fountain 4278 spring of water 4293 water 4296 wells 5226 basin