beer-sheva · Beersheba

What it means

beer-sheva (בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Beersheba”.

A place with wells in the south of Canaan, the southern limit of the land ("from Dan to Beersheba"). The name sounds like "well of the oath" and "well of the seven" (Genesis 21:28-31).

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.

The place

• Beersheba

  Today: Beersheba (Be'er Sheva), Israel

  A city at the southern edge of the land of Israel, in the Negev desert, about 47 miles (75 km) south of Jerusalem.

  Abraham and Isaac made agreements there over a well (Gen 21:31; 26:33). "From Dan to Beersheba" meant the whole land.

  Genesis 21:31Genesis 26:331 Kings 19:3Amos 5:5

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×22
• Joshua×4
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×10
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Nehemiah×4
• Amos×4

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 21:31

  That is why he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore.

• Genesis 21:32

  So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

• Genesis 21:33

  He planted a tamarisk in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of YHWH, El Olam.

• Genesis 22:19

  Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba.

• Genesis 26:23

  From there he went up to Beersheba.

• Genesis 26:33

  He called it Shibah; that is why the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

• Genesis 28:10

  Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

• Genesis 46:1

  Israel set out with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the Elohim of his father Isaac.

• Genesis 46:5

  Then Jacob set out from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

• Joshua 15:28

  Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

• Joshua 19:2

  And they had in their inheritance: Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah,

• Judges 20:1

  Then all the sons of Israel went out, and the community assembled as one man, from Dan to Beersheba, and the land of Gilead, to YHWH at Mizpah.

• 1 Samuel 3:20

  And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 8:2

  The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 3:10

  to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

• 2 Samuel 17:11

  So I counsel that all Israel be surely gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea in multitude, and that you in person go into battle.

• 2 Samuel 24:2

  The king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, “Please go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, so that I may know the number of the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:7

  They came to the fortified city of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivite and the Canaanite, and they went out to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

• 2 Samuel 24:15

  YHWH sent a pestilence on Israel from the morning until the appointed time; and there died of the people, from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men.

• 1 Kings 4:25

  And Judah and Israel lived securely, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 19:3

  He saw this, and got up and went for his life; and he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there.

• 2 Kings 12:1

  In year seven of Jehu Joash began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Zibiah of Beersheba.

• 2 Kings 23:8

  He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and made unclean the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he tore down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the chief of the city, which were on a man’s left at the gate of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 4:28

  And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

• 1 Chronicles 21:2

  David said to Joab and to the chiefs of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan, and bring the report to me, so that I may know their number.”

• 2 Chronicles 19:4

  Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem; and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim, and brought them back to YHWH, Elohim of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 24:1

  Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

• 2 Chronicles 30:5

  They established a word: to send a proclamation through all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to celebrate the Passover to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, in Jerusalem; for they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it is written.

• Nehemiah 11:27

  in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its settlements,

• Nehemiah 11:30

  Zanoah, Adullam and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its settlements. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.

• Amos 5:5

  And do not seek Bethel, and do not enter Gilgal, and do not cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will become nothing.

• Amos 8:14

  Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria, and say, “As your god lives, Dan,” and, “As the way of Beersheba lives,” will fall and not rise again.

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