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Siloam [si-loh-uh m, sahy-] Examples noun
- a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.
Examples from the Web for siloam Historical Examples of siloam
Why then should it have been upon them, of all people in the world, that this tower of Siloam had fallen?
Samuel Butler
So much said Mr. M’Gabbery while struggling in the pool of Siloam.
Anthony Trollope
And that is the pool of Siloam, Sir Lionel; we shall go up there.
Anthony Trollope
It may have been north to south—my thoughts had wandered again to the Tower of Siloam.
Henry Festing Jones
The inscription of Siloam is the oldest known Hebrew inscription.
F. W. Farrar
British Dictionary definitions for siloam Siloam noun
- Bible a pool in Jerusalem where Jesus cured a man of his blindness (John 9)
Word Origin and History for siloam Siloam
pool and spring outside Jerusalem (John ix:7), from Late Latin, from New Testament Greek, from Hebrew shiloach, literally “sending forth,” from shalach “to send.”