beer · well

What it means

beer (בְּאֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “well”.

Also a pit.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A deep hole dug in the ground to draw water.
2. A deep pit in the ground where one can fall, like those of tar.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• well ×33
• was pit after pit ×2
• wells ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×23
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×5
• 2 Samuel×3
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×1

• Genesis 14:10

  Now the Valley of Siddim was pit after pit of bitumen; and as they fled, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell there, and those who were left fled to the mountains.

• Genesis 16:14

  That is why the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; look, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

• Genesis 21:19

  Then Elohim opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy.

• Genesis 21:25

  But Abraham reproached Abimelech about a well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You are to take the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

• Genesis 24:11

  He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.

• Genesis 24:20

  She quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

• Genesis 26:15

  All the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped up and filled with dust.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac again dug the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by names like the names by which his father had called them.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they had contended with him.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 26:25

  He built there an altar and called on the name of YHWH, and pitched his tent there, and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 26:32

  On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

• Genesis 29:2

  He looked, and look, a well in the field, and look, there three flocks of sheep were lying beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the mouth of the well was large.

• Genesis 29:3

  When all the flocks were gathered there, they would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put back the stone on the mouth of the well in its place.

• Genesis 29:8

  They said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Exodus 2:15

  When Pharaoh heard of this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian; and he sat down by the well.

• Numbers 20:17

  Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the way of the king; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

• Numbers 21:16

  And from there they went to Beer; that is the well of which YHWH said to Moses, “Gather the people, and I will give them water.”

• Numbers 21:17

  Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

• Numbers 21:18

  The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

• Numbers 21:22

  “Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or into vineyard; we will not drink water from a well; we will go by the way of the king until we have passed through your territory.”

• 2 Samuel 17:18

  But a young man saw them and told Absalom. So the two of them went quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his courtyard, and they went down there.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the mouth of the well and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known.

• 2 Samuel 17:21

  After they had gone, they came up out of the well and went and told King David; they said to David, “Get up and cross the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you.”

• Psalms 55:23

  But you, Elohim, will bring them down to the well of the pit; men of blood and deceit will not reach half their days; but I will trust in you.

• Psalms 69:15

  Let not the current of waters sweep me away, nor the depths swallow me, nor the well close its mouth over me.

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing water from the midst of your own well.

• Proverbs 23:27

  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.

• Song of Songs 4:15

  a spring of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

And 4 more times.