For some time it was taken as self-evident that the "gutter" (tzinnor in Hebrew) of the biblical account was this shaft, named Warren's Shaft, after its discoverer.

There are two descriptions in the Bible of Jerusalem’s conquest by David. The first, in Samuel, mentions the blind and the lame, who according to the Jebusites would stop David. The word tzinnor (“gutter”) also appears in connection with the conquest; however, its meaning remains a …

Mar 9, 2015 · One word in the Hebrew (Tzinnor), followed by Captain Warren’s wonderful discovery of the secret passage leading from the Virgin’s Fount, has enabled us to understand a most obscure and baffling passage in the Old Testament, and to follow the very track by which the adventurous Joab gained access to the stronghold of Zion.

Aug 9, 2021 · On that day David had said, “Anyone who conquers the Jebusites will have to use the ‘tsinor’ to reach those ‘lame and blind’ who are David’s enemies.” This is the lone use of the word ‘tsinor’ in the Bible, and so its exact meaning is not fully known.

One might then take the three verses, 6-8, as a chronological sequence: (6) David is taunted; (7) David ensnares the city; (8) David at once issues an edict forbidding his soldiers to harm a Jebusite or touch the tzinnor.

He also argues that the Hebrew word צִּנּוֹר tzinnor/ṣinnôr should not be translated “water-shaft” but rather refers to a weapon used during sieges. The awkward phrase translated “Whoever would strike down the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft” would be better translated as “Whoever attacks a Jebusite—will be ...

One word in the Hebrew (Tzinnor), followed by Captain Warren's wonderful discovery of the secret passage leading from the Virgin's Fount, has enabled us to understand a most obscure and baffiing passage

That the Jebusites had access to this well or spring from within their wall and fortress is clear : but, in the end, it proved their undoing, for David's men obtained possession of Jebus by means of the tzinnor (A.V. "gutter"), i.e. the channel and shaft leading from the well into their citadel.

Perhaps the water system is best known for its connection to David’s capture of Jerusalem. The tzinnor (usually translated as “water shaft”) was used to accomplish this feat according to 21 Kyle H. Keimer 2 Samuel 5:8.

May 14, 2013 · Most often their victory was through might of sword and a great breaching of the mighty walls, yet it was David in the tenth century BCE who conquered the Jebusite fortifications and made this the Jewish capital for eternity, by finding the way in through a small 'tzinnor', a pipe perhaps, or passageway at a point of weakness.