gev denotes water-holding installations: ones to be made in a wadi and ones sought when water is scarce.

The attested use concerns water-holding installations: in 2 Kings 3:16 they are to fill a wadi, and in Jeremiah 14:3 they are places where people seek water but find none.

1. Water-holding installations · dominant

   The plural absolute forms occur in settings involving water. In 2 Kings 3:16 the APB renders the command, “Make this wadi full of cisterns,” while in Jeremiah 14:3 it renders people coming “to the cisterns” for water and finding none.

   2 Kings 3:16Jeremiah 14:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “cisterns” in both cited verses, though it is a whole-verse translation.