Σιλωάμ

Silwavm Silwavm (Hebrew j"l?vi, , which in is translated
ajpestalmevno", but more correctly (see below) `a sending out,' `gushing forth' (of water); it is formed after the analogy of b/Yai, `had in hatred', `persecuted', from by"a;; d/LyI, `born', from dl'y:, `to bring forth'; ("the purely passive explanation,
ajpestalmevno", , is not so incorrect." Ewald, Ausf?hrl. Lehrbuch d. Hebrew Spr. sec. 150, 2 a.; cf. Meyer on John, the passage cited)),
oJ (in Josephus,
hJ
Silwavm, namely,
phghv, b. j. 5, 12, 2; 6, 8, 5; but also
mevcri
tou'
Silwavm, b. j. 2, 16, 2; 6, 7, 2; (Buttmann, 21 (19))), (indeclinable; but in Josephus, b. j. 5, 6, 1
ajpov
th'"
Silwa"), Siloam, a fountain of sweet and abundant water (Josephus, b. j. 5, 4, 1), flowing into a basin or pool of the same name (), both of which seem to have been situated in the southern part of Jerusalem, although opinions vary on this point: ; (). Cf. (B. D., under the word Siloam); Winer's RWB under the word Siloah; R?diger in Gesenius Thesaurus, p. 1416; Leyrer in Herzog edition 1, ivx., p. 371ff; Robinson, Palestine, i. 333ff; Tobler, Die Siloaquelle n. der Oelberg (St. Gallen, 1852); Kneucker, Siloah, Quelle Teich u. Thal in Jerus. (Heidelb. 1873); Furrer in Schenkel v., 295f; (Ritter, Palestine, etc., English translation, i., 148f; Wilson, Ordnance Survey, etc., 1865; especially Guthe in the Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Pal.-Vereins for 1882, pp. 205ff, 229ff; Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Morgenl.-Gesellsch. for 1882, p. 725ff).*