Biblical character of a house with no fresh water (5)
I believe the answer is:
hosea
'biblical character' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'house with no fresh water' is the wordplay.
'house' becomes 'h'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'no' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'fresh water' becomes 'sea' (the sea is water. I am not sure about the 'fresh' bit.).
'h'+'o'+'sea'='HOSEA'
'of a' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for hosea that I've seen before include "OT prophet" , "author of verse collection" , "bookmaker" , "OT prophet/book" , "Hebrew prophet; book of Bible" .)