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Words
בְּאֵר H884
- Home gloss
- Beersheba
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- Beer-sheba
- Note
- "Well of Seven" and "Well of the Oath" (21:31); see the note there. Isaac names it again (26:33)
- Rulings
- 17, 18
Occurrences (4)
- 21:14 And Abraham started early in the morning, and took bread and a waterskin of waters, and gave it to Hagar—he put it on her shoulder—and the child, and sent her away. And she went and strayed in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- 21:31 On thus he called that place Beersheba, for there the two of them swore.
- 21:32 And they cut a covenant in Beersheba; and Abimelech rose, and Phicol, the officer of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
- 21:33 And he planted a tamarisk in Beersheba, and called there on the name of , El Olam.