Beer בְּאֵר

Beer (Hebrew בְּאֵר, Strong's H875) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “well”. It occurs 38 times in 34 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Beer, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 14:10
  And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.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
  Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
• Genesis 21:19
  And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.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
  And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
• Genesis 21:30
  And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
• Genesis 24:11
  And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.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 hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.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
  For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.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.
• Genesis 26:18
  And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
• Genesis 26:19
  And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
• Genesis 26:20
  And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
• Genesis 26:21
  And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
• Genesis 26:22
  And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
• Genesis 26:25
  And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
• Genesis 26:32
  And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
• Genesis 29:2
  And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
• Genesis 29:3
  And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
• Genesis 29:8
  And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
• Genesis 29:10
  And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Exodus

• Exodus 2:15
  Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

Numbers

• Numbers 20:17
  Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
• Numbers 21:16
  And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
• Numbers 21:17
  Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
• Numbers 21:18
  The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
• Numbers 21:22
  Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king’s high way, until we be past thy borders.“Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 17:18
  Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
• 2 Samuel 17:19
  And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
• 2 Samuel 17:21
  And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David, and said unto David, Arise, and pass quickly over the water: for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

Psalms

• Psalm 55:23
  But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
• Psalm 69:15
  Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 5:15
  Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
• Proverbs 23:27
  For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 4:15
  A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 6:7
  As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).