HebrewH0875Noun (Feminine)

בְּאֵר

be.er

32Occurrences
H0875Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a pit; especially a well

from H874 (בָּאַר);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
well, pit, spring

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

בְּאֵר appears 32 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
19
Numbers
5
2 Samuel
3
Proverbs
2
Exodus
1
Jeremiah
1
Song of Solomon
1

Key Passages

2 Samuel 17:18BSB

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.

Genesis 21:19BSB

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.

Genesis 26:18BSB

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.

Genesis 26:32BSB

On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

Numbers 20:17BSB

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.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.