Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ — H884

H884 · Hebrew — באר

Pronunciation: be-ayr' sheh'-bah

Definition

locative proper noun

Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine

  1. Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"
  2. a city at the south edge of Israel

Usually translated as

Beer-shebah

Origin

from H875 and H7651 (in the sense of H7650); well of an oath

Occurrences

Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ occurs 34 times in 33 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (10), Joshua (2), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (2), 2 Samuel (5), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (2), 1 Chronicles (2), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (2), Amos (2)

Strong's Lexicon — B