Beer
בְּאֵרStrong’s H0876beer (be-er)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beer is the Hebrew word usually translated “beer towards”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
Meaning
- § Beer = "well"
How it's translated
- beer towards 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בְּאֵר beer · Beer
§ Beer = "well" an oasis rest in desert during the Exodus
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEER, noun
- A spirituous liquor made from any farinaceous grain; but generally from barley, which is first malted and ground, and its fermentable substance extracted by hot water.
- beer is a name given in America to fermenting liquors made of various other materials; and when a decoction of the roots of plants forms a part of the composition, it is called spring-beer, from the season in which it is made.
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.