UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: κολυμβήθρα; -ας

Related lemmas: κολυμβάω

Sense 1: pool (primarily used for bathing)

Semantic entry: 7.58

Semantic domains: Constructions

Subdomains: Constructions for Holding Water

Definition: a relatively large construction for collecting water

Notes: The term κολυμβήθρα occurs in the NT only in RV JHN 5:2 · LV JHN 5:2 · Read together JHN 5:2, and refers to a pool having five porches, one on each of four sides and another porch which went across the middle of the pool

Further resources: realia:3.10

JHN 5:2: RV JHN 5:2 · LV JHN 5:2 · Read together JHN 5:2

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OET-RV JHN 5:2

2 In Yerushalem at the Sheep Gate, there’s the Beyt-Tsayda pool that has five alcoves

OET-LV JHN 5:2

2 And there _is a_pool in the Hierousalaʸm at the sheep _gate, which being _called Baʸthsaida In _Hebraios, having five porticos.

JHN 5:7: RV JHN 5:7 · LV JHN 5:7 · Read together JHN 5:7

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OET-RV JHN 5:7

7 “Yes mister,” the sick man answered, “but when the water starts moving, I don’t have a companion to lift me into the pool, so someone else always get there before me.”

OET-LV JHN 5:7

7 The one ailing answered to _him:
Master, I _am_ not _having a_person, in _order _that whenever the water may _be _disturbed, he _may _put me into the pool, in but which am _coming I, another before me is _coming _down.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

JHN: RV JHN 5:2 · RV JHN 5:7 · RV JHN 9:7 · LV JHN 5:2 · LV JHN 5:7 · LV JHN 9:7 · Read together JHN 5:2 · Read together JHN 5:7 · Read together JHN 9:7

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κολυμβήθρα

Form 1

Sense 1: pool (primarily used for bathing)