בְּאֵר
be.er
“well”
Definition
a pit; especially a well
from H874 (בָּאַר);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
בְּאֵר appears 32 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
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