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( Á᾿óöÜñ v. r. Á᾿óöÜä , 1Ma_9:33), a "pool" ( ëÜêêïò , not sea, as the Vulg. and some other versions render, but which often stands in the Sept. for áּåֹø , a pit, or áְּàֵø , a well), i.e. fountain or cistern in the south or south-east of Palestine (in the " wilderness of Thecoe" or Tekoa), where the Jews under Jonathan Maccabaeus had an encampment at the beginning of their struggle with Bacchides (see Josephus. Ant. 13:1, 2); meaning doubtless (if the Dead [Asphaltic] Sea, as Grotius and others suppose) some considerable reservoirs in the direction of Arabia (comp. v. 35), near the territory of the Nabathaeans (see Diod. Sic. 19:94).