Lexical Summary Beer Sheba: "well of seven", a place in the Negev Original Word: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַעTransliteration: Beer Sheba Phonetic Spelling: (be-ayr' sheh'-bah) Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: "well of seven", a place in the Negev Meaning: Beersheba -- "well of seven", a place in the Negev Strong's Concordance Beer-shebah From 'er and sheba' (in the sense of shaba'); well of an oath; Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine -- Beer-shebah. see HEBREW 'er see HEBREW sheba' see HEBREW shaba' Brown-Driver-Briggs H884. Beer Sheba שֶׁ֫בַע בְּאֵר proper name, of a location Beersheba (well of seven, explained Genesis 21:30-31, as place of swearing by seven lambs, or, well of oath, see שְׁבֻעָה; compare same meaning otherwise derived 26:33) — שֶׁבַע בְּאֵר 26:33 13t., בְּאֵרשֶֿׁבַע Joshua 19:2; שָׁ֑בַע בְּאֵר Genesis 21:14 18t.; שֶׁבַע בְּאֵ֫רָה (ָ ה locative) 46:1 — south from Hebron, according to Onomasticon approximately 20 miles LagOnom. 103, 234, 2nd ed. 138, 248; modern Bîr-es-Seba, 12 hours from Hebron RobBR i. 204 f. Surveyiii. 394 21:14, 31, 32, 33; 22:19 (twice in verse); 26:23, 33; 28:10; 46:1, 5; Joshua 15:28; 19:2; Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 3:20; 8:2; 2 Samuel 17:11; 24:7; 1 Kings 19:3; 2 Kings 12:2; 23:8; Amos 5:5; 1 Chronicles 4:28; 2 Chronicles 19:4; 24:1; Nehemiah 11:27, 30; in phrase וְעַדבּֿ ׳מִדָּן from Dan to Beersheba (i.e. all the territory of Israel, see דָּן) Amos 8:14; Judges 20:1; 1 Samuel 3:20; 2 Samuel 3:10; 17:11; 24:2, 15; 1 Kings 5:5, & (only Chronicles) וְעַדדָּֿן שֶׁבַע מִבְּאֵר from Beersheba to Dan 1 Chronicles 21:2; 2 Chronicles 30:5. |
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