Toponym Beer in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: a well. Related names are: Israel, Dan, Judah . The translations of Beer in 7 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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Wear it!Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. (GEN 16:14)
And 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. (GEN 21:14)
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. (GEN 21:31)
Thus 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. (GEN 21:32)
And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. (GEN 21:33)
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. (GEN 22:19)
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba. (GEN 22:19)
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. (GEN 26:23)
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day. (GEN 26:33)
And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. (GEN 28:10)
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. (GEN 46:1)
And 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. (GEN 46:5)
And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water. (NUM 21:16)
And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah, (JOS 15:28)
And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, (JOS 19:2)
And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. (JDG 9:21)
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh. (JDG 20:1)
And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD. (1SA 3:20)
Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba. (1SA 8:2)
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba. (2SA 3:10)
Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. (2SA 17:11)
For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. (2SA 24:2)
And came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hibites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba. (2SA 24:7)
So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. (2SA 24:15)
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon. (1KI 4:25)
And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there. (1KI 19:3)
In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. (2KI 12:1)
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city. (2KI 23:8)
And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual, (1CH 4:28)
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. (1CH 21:2)