TBESH · H0875
בְּאֵר · be.er · well
well, pit, spring
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בְּאֵר (be.er) means “well” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: be-ayr' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
בְּאֵר · be.er · well
well, pit, spring
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from H874 (בָּאַר); a pit; especially a well
KJV glosses: pit, well.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a well | 8 |
| the well | 7 |
| of the well | 6 |
| well | 4 |
| from any well | 2 |
| the wells | 2 |
| o well | 1 |
| out of the well | 1 |
| pits | 1 |
| the pit | 1 |
| to the pit | 1 |
| your own well | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| a well | 4 |
| from the wells | 3 |
| the well | 3 |
| of the well | 2 |
| upon the wells | 2 |
| well | 2 |
| again unto the well | 1 |
| and behold a well | 1 |
| and let not the pit | 1 |
| by a well | 1 |
| by it for out of that well | 1 |
| for all the wells | 1 |
| into the pit | 1 |
| o well | 1 |
| of a well | 1 |
| of the wells | 1 |
| out of the well | 1 |
| over the wells | 1 |
| pit | 1 |
| slimepits | 1 |
| the wells | 1 |
| there a well | 1 |
| thine own well | 1 |
| this well | 1 |
| was full of | 1 |
| wherefore the well | 1 |
| which had a well | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 34 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
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.
Read word by wordTherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordBut when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
Read word by wordHe replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordSo the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
Read word by wordIsaac 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.
Read word by wordThen Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordThen they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Read word by wordHe 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.”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordOn that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
Read word by wordHe 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordPlease let us pass through your land. We will not go 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.”
Read word by wordFrom there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
Read word by wordThen Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
Read word by wordThe 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,
Read word by word“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into 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.”
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordThen the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
Read word by wordAfter 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.”
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 55.24
Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 69.16
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
Read word by wordFor a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
Read word by wordYou are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Read word by wordAs a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
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