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Siloam

American

[si-loh-uhm, sahy-] / sɪˈloʊ əm, saɪ- /

noun

a spring and pool near Jerusalem. John 9:7.

Siloam British

/ sɪ-, saɪˈləʊəm /

noun

Bible a pool in Jerusalem where Jesus cured a man of his blindness (John 9)

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Orlowski was a Ph.D. student when her graduate research team developed a novel low-flow water monitoring system in collaboration with Siloam Springs-based companies Alternative Design and Cobb-Vantress Inc., a primary broiler breeder company.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2024

The website highlights one of its locations as Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where Simmons is based.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2022

At a town hall-style meeting in Siloam Springs, they shouted “liar” at him.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Now Meyer is back home with his family in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, where he can enjoy the outdoors.

From Fox News • Jul. 21, 2021

John tells us that the name Siloam means Sent, and evidently connects this name with the claim Jesus constantly made to be the Sent of God.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Dods, Marcus

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