Beer
בְּאֵרStrong’s H0881beer (be-er)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beer is the Hebrew word usually translated “beeroth” and “from beeroth”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.”
Meaning
- Beer = "well"
- § Beeroth = "wells"
How it's translated
- and beeroth 4
- from beeroth 1
- beeroth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Ezra 1
- Nehemiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 9:17And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
- Joshua 18:25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
- 2 Samuel 4:2And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.
- Ezra 2:25The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.
- Nehemiah 7:29The men of Kirjathjearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּאֵר beer · Beer
Beer = "well" a city west of Hebron Another name of be.e.rot (בְּאֵרוֹת "Beeroth" H0881G)
בְּאֵרוֹת beerot · Beeroth
§ Beeroth = "wells" a Gibeonite city allotted to Benjamin
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.