Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H884
בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע
be.er she.va · “Beersheba”
Used 68 times across 11 books
Definition
§ Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"
a city at the south edge of Israel
Where it appears
Genesis22
Joshua4
Judges2
1 Samuel4
2 Samuel10
1 Kings4
2 Kings4
1 Chronicles4
2 Chronicles6
Nehemiah4
Amos4
In the text
Genesis 21:14And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer–sheba.Genesis 21:31Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.Genesis 21:32Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.Genesis 21:33And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.Genesis 22:19So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer–sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer–sheba.Genesis 26:23And he went up from thence to Beer–sheba.Genesis 26:33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.Genesis 28:10And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.Genesis 46:1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer–sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.Genesis 46:5And Jacob rose up from Beer–sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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