Well
בְּאֵרStrong’s H0875beer (be-er)
Appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beer is the Hebrew word usually translated “well”, “well of” and “pits”. It appears in 34 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.”
Meaning
- Well, pit, spring
How it's translated
- the well 14
- a well 9
- a well of 3
- well of 2
- pits 1
- pits of 1
- the wells 1
- wells of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 19
- Numbers 5
- 2 Samuel 3
- Psalms 2
- Proverbs 2
- Exodus 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 16:14Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
- Genesis 21:19And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
- Genesis 21:25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Genesis 21:30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
- Genesis 24:11And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:20And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּאֵר beer · well
well, pit, spring
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “well” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WELL, noun
[G., a spring; to spring, to issue forth, to gush, to well to swell. G., a wave. On this word I suppose swell to be formed.]
- A spring; a fountain; the issuing of water from the earth.
- A pit or cylindrical hole, sunk perpendicularly into the earth to such a depth as to reach a supply of water, and walled with stone to prevent the earth from caving in.
- In ships, an apartment in the middle of a ships hold, to inclose the pumps, from the bottom to the lower deck.
- In a fishing vessel, an apartment in the middle of the hold, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated int he bottom to let in fresh water for the preservation of fish, while they are transported to market.
All definitions
- In the military art, a hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.