. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . isternis, of course, the proper rendering; and inthat case, as the words for cistern and well—reV and ror—very nearly correspond, sothere is often no material difference betweenthe things signified by them. For one class1 Gull, sxxvii., 2i; xli., 14; Jul, xsxviii., C. of cisterns were formed by sinking deepshafts through the rock, and then making atthe bottom a bottle or retort-shaped excava-tion, to act as collector
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . isternis, of course, the proper rendering; and inthat case, as the words for cistern and well—reV and ror—very nearly correspond, sothere is often no material difference betweenthe things signified by them. For one class1 Gull, sxxvii., 2i; xli., 14; Jul, xsxviii., C. of cisterns were formed by sinking deepshafts through the rock, and then making atthe bottom a bottle or retort-shaped excava-tion, to act as collector for the water that atcertain seasons bubbled up from below. Oth-ers, however, which more commonly and prop-erly bore the name of cisterns, were mere res-ervoirs iu the rock or earth, in which, duringthe rainy season, water was collected andkept in store for the season of varied, both in dimensions and in themanner in which they were prepared. Thelargest sort of public tank or reservoir wascalled pool (q. v.). Pools and cisterns arefrequent throughout the whole of Syria andPalestine. In Palestine, where summer isalways more or less a season of drought, it. Passage in Wall of Huram Area. must, from the earliest times, have been oneof the chief cares of the inhabitants to pro-vide such artificial means of supply, andno considerable town not immediately onthe banks of the Jordan could have thoughtitself safe without them. On the long-for-gotten way from Jericho to Bethel cisternsof great age are found at regular intervals;and so well was Jerusalem provided withthem, that never, during any of its long andterrible sieges, did it sutler from scarcity ofwater. The besiegers often suffered fromthirst, but never the besieged. This pecul-iarity, that procured for Jerusalem the de-scription of a rocky, well-inclosed fortress,within well watered, and without whollydry, is explained by the fact that almost ev- CITIES 201 CITIES OF REFUGE ery private house possessed one or m
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