Lake

There are three lakes spoken of in Judea, namely, the Asphaltites, Tiberias, and Semechon. In the original we should read Bor as a lake, or pit, or cistern. In Palestine, we are told, they make lakes for their wines. That passage in the Revelations concerning the wine - press means a take. (Rev. 14. 19, 20.)

See MEROM and SEA. That most terrible description of hell, as a lake burning with fire and brimstone, Jer 19:20 21:8, recalls the fire and sea in which Sodom was consumed and swallowed up.\par

lāk (λίμνη, lı́mnē): The word is used (Luk 5:1, Luk 5:2; Luk 8:22, Luk 8:23, Luk 8:33) of the Lake of Gennesaret or Sea of Galilee, and (Rev 19:20; Rev 20:10, Rev 20:14, Rev 20:15; Rev 21:8) of the “lake of fire and brimstone.” Lakes are not abundant in Syria and Palestine. The Dead Sea, which might be called a lake, is in most places in English Versions of the Bible called the Salt Sea. It is called by the Arabs Baḥr Lût, Sea of Lot. It is a question whether the Waters of Merom (Jos 11:5, Jos 11:7) can be identified with the Ḥûleh, a marshy lake in the course of the Upper Jordan, North of the Sea of Galilee. East of Damascus on the edge of the desert there are saltish lakes in which the water of the rivers of Damascus (see 2Ki 5:12) is gathered and evaporates. In the Lebanon West of Ba‛albek is the small Lake Yammûneh, which is fed by copious springs, but whose water disappears in the latter part of the summer, being drained off by subterranean channels. The Lake of Ḥumṣ on the Orontes is artificial, though ancient. On the lower Orontes is the Lake of Antioch.