בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע
be.er she.va
“Beersheba”
Definition
Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine
from H875 (בְּאֵר) and H7651 (שֶׁבַע) (in the sense of H7650 (שָׁבַע)); well of an oath;
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun
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Occurrences
בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע appears 31 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
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