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Genesis 16:14
Genesis 16:14 is verse 14 of Genesis chapter 16, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
Beer-lahai-roi means well of the Living One who sees me.
King James Version
Wherefore the well was called Beerlahairoi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
World English Bible
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.
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Genesis 16:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible
12 He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
13 So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
15 And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.
16 Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 21:31So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
Genesis 24:62Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
Genesis 25:11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Numbers 13:26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.