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Beersheba

Or the well of the oath; so named from a well which Abraham dug in this place, and the covenant which he here made with Abimelech, king of Gerar, Gen. Beersheba is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “the well of an oath; the seventh well.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0884
Hebrew
בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע
Name meaning
the well of an oath; the seventh well According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H0884

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע

Glosses: Beersheba

Indexed occurrences: 33

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Beersheba

the well of an oath; the seventh well

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

BEERSHEBA

or the well of the oath; so named from a well which Abraham dug in this place, and the covenant which he here made with Abimelech, king of Gerar, Gen. xx, 31.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references37 references

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Beersheba

Meaning:
the well of an oath; the seventh well

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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