Well or cistern
Many villages were built at places were it was relatively easy to obtain water by means of a well. If this was not possible, one constructed cisterns beneath the houses, in which the rainwater was collected during the winter month, and stored for the dry month of the summer. Both a well and a cistern required a container for reaching the water. The vessel was lowered deep down by a wheel in order to fill it with water.
Gen 16:14; Gen 21:30; Gen 24:16–42; Exod 21:33–34; Num 20:17; Num 21:17–18; Deut 6:11; 2 Sam 23:15–16; 2 Chron 26:10; Prov 5:15; Prov 25:26; Eccles 12:6; Isa 30:14; Isa 51:1; Jer 2:13; Jer 37:16; Jer 38:6–13; Judith 7:20–21; 2 Macc 10:37; Luke 14:5; John 4:6–14; Rev 9:1
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