HebrewH0884Noun

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע

be.er she.va

31Occurrences
H0884Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine

from H875 (בְּאֵר) and H7651 (שֶׁבַע) (in the sense of H7650 (שָׁבַע)); well of an oath;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath" a city at the south edge of Israel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע appears 31 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
10
2 Samuel
5
2 Chronicles
3
1 Chronicles
2
1 Samuel
2
Amos
2
Joshua
2
Nehemiah
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 21:2BSB

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.”

2 Chronicles 24:1BSB

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.

2 Samuel 24:15BSB

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.

Genesis 21:32BSB

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.

Genesis 46:1BSB

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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