Beersheba
בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַעStrong’s H0884beer sheva (be-er she-va)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beer sheva is the Hebrew word usually translated “sheba”, “beer” and “from beer”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.”
Meaning
- § Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"
How it's translated
- sheba 34
- beer 17
- from beer 8
- in beer 4
- and beer 2
- at beer 1
- beer towards 1
- and in beer 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 10
- 2 Samuel 5
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Joshua 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Kings 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 21:31Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
- Genesis 21:32Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
- Genesis 21:33And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
- Genesis 22:19So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
- Genesis 26:23And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
- Genesis 26:33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע beer sheva · Beersheba
§ Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath" a city at the south edge of Israel
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.