בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע
Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ · H884 · Hebrew · proper noun · 69 occurrences
Place
Meanings
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Beersheba
A town in the Negev at the southern border of Judah, used especially with Dan at the northern border to refer to the whole land
ExamplesGenesis 21:14 So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Joshua 15:28 Hazar-shual, Beersheba, and Biziothiah,
Judges 20:1 Then all the sons of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, came out, and the congregation assembled as one person to the LORD at Mizpah.
How it’s used
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Waterbodies001002008
- בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע names Beersheba, built on the common word for a well, as at Genesis 21:31 — "he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath."
- Landforms001002003
- As a place name built on "well," the term also carries the sense of a landform feature, as at Genesis 21:33 — "Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba."
- Names of Locations003001010
- The word is the proper name of the well-known southern city, as at Genesis 22:19 — "they got up and went together to Beersheba."
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H884. Beer Sheba שֶׁ֫בַע בְּאֵר proper name, of a location Beersheba (well of seven,…
Sheba שֶׁ֫בַע בְּאֵר proper name, of a location Beersheba (well of seven, explained Gen 21:30-31, as place of swearing by seven lambs, or, well of oath, see שְׁבֻעָה; compare same meaning otherwise derived Gen 26:33) — שֶׁבַע בְּאֵר Gen 26:33 Gen 26:13t., בְּאֵרשֶֿׁבַע Jos 19:2; שָׁ֑בַע בְּאֵר Gen 21:14 Gen 21:18t.; שֶׁבַע בְּאֵ֫רָה (ָ ה locative) Gen 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 Gen 21:14, Gen 21:31, Gen 21:32, Gen 21:33; Gen 22:19 (twice in verse); Gen 26:23, Gen 26:33; Gen 28:10; Gen 46:1, Gen 46:5; Jos 15:28; Jos 19:2; Jdg 20:1; 1Sa 3:20; 1Sa 8:2; 2Sa 17:11; 2Sa 24:7; 1Ki 19:3; 2Ki 12:2; 2Ki 23:8; Amo 5:5; 1Ch 4:28; 2Ch 19:4; 2Ch 24:1; Neh 11:27, Neh 11:30; in phrase וְעַדבּֿ ׳מִדָּן from Dan to Beersheba (i.e. all the territory of Israel, see דָּן) Amo 8:14; Jdg 20:1; 1Sa 3:20; 2Sa 3:10; 2Sa 17:11; 2Sa 24:2, 2Sa 24:15; 1Ki 5:5, & (only Chronicles) וְעַדדָּֿן שֶׁבַע מִבְּאֵר from Beersheba to Dan 1Ch 21:2; 2Ch 30:5.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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