Beer: meaning of the name

Beer in Hebrew and Greek

Places named Beer

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• Beer (2)

Beer in Scripture

“Beer” appears in 37 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 16:14

  Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

• Genesis 21:14

  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 Beer–sheba.

• Genesis 21:31

  Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

• Genesis 21:32

  Thus they made a covenant at Beer–sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

• Genesis 21:33

  And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

• Genesis 22:19

  So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer–sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer–sheba.

• Genesis 26:23

  And he went up from thence to Beer–sheba.

• Genesis 26:33

  And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.