Strong's Hebrew · H875
H875 bᵉʼêr
בְּאֵר
be-ayr'
well
Looking for Greek G875 aphrízō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H875. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
bᵉʼêr appears 37 times in Scripture, including Genesis 14:10 and Genesis 16:14. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a pit; especially a well
In the King James Version
pit, well.
Derivation
from H874 (בָּאַר);
Appears 37 times in Scripture
“Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.”
“Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.”
“Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.”
“As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.”
“But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,”
“On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.”
“So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.”
“He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.””
“And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
