H875 - בְּאֵר (bᵉʼêr)

H875 בְּאֵר (bᵉʼêr) be-ayr'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

well

Strong's Definition

a pit; especially a well

Derivation: from H874 (בָּאַר);

KJV Usage: pit, well.

TWOT Reference: 194a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) well, pit, spring

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5421

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

well, pit, spring

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בְּאֵר beêr BDB Definition: 1) well, pit, spring Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H874 Same Word by TWOT Number: 194a Total KJV Occurrences: 36

Bible Occurrences (32)

14:10 16:14 21:19 21:25 21:30 24:11 24:20 26:15 26:18 26:19 26:20 26:21 26:22 26:25 26:32 29:2 29:3 29:8 29:10

2:15

20:17 21:16 21:17 21:18 21:22

17:18 17:19 17:21

55:23 69:15

5:15 23:27

Genesis 14:10

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.

Genesis 16:14

Therefore... the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh... and Bered.

Genesis 21:19

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.

Genesis 21:25

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about... a well... that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

Genesis 21:30

He replied, You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.

Genesis 24:11

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.

Genesis 24:20

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.

Genesis 26:15

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.