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בְּאֵר

Bᵉʼêr · H876 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. a well, watering place, spring

    A hole in the ground reaching underground water, usually manmade, dug or hewn from rock but sometimes natural, used to access, collect and store water, including by shepherds for their animals, regarded as a source of life, and sometimes used as a metaphor for a woman

    Examples

    Numbers 21:16 From there they continued to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

  2. Beer

    A location with a well in the Sinai peninsula, where the Israelites encamped on their way from Egypt to Canaan

    Examples

    Numbers 21:16 From there they continued to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

  3. Beer

    Town, possibly to be identified with Beeroth; located around ten kilometers north of Jerusalem; territory of Benjamin

    Examples

    Judges 9:21 Then Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer; and he stayed there because of his brother Abimelech.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
Waterbodies001002008
בְּאֵר names the place Beer, itself meaning "well," as at Numbers 21:16 — "they continued to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses."
Landforms001002003
As a proper name built directly on the common word for a well (a landform feature marking a natural water source), the term names such a site at Numbers 21:16 — "they continued to Beer, that is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Assemble the people, that I may give them water.'"
Names of Locations003001010
The word is the proper name of a specific location, as at Judges 9:21 — "Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer; and he stayed there because of his brother Abimelech."

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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