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be.er she.va H884

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע (be.er she.va) means “Beersheba” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע Hebrew · H884 34 tagged occurrences in 33 verses

Pronunciation guide: be-ayr' sheh'-bah Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0884

בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע · be.er she.va · Beersheba

§ Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath" a city at the south edge of Israel

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H875 (בְּאֵר) and H7651 (שֶׁבַע) (in the sense of H7650 (שָׁבַע)); well of an oath; Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine

KJV glosses: Beer-shebah.

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How translators render H884

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
vvv 25
beersheba 19
in beersheba 4
to beersheba 4
from beersheba 3
from 2
at beersheba 1
in 1
is beersheba 1
of 1
of beersheba 1
she was from 1
she was from beersheba 1
to 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
even to beersheba 7
from beersheba 6
to beersheba 5
of beersheba 4
at beersheba 3
beersheba 3
in beersheba 2
and at beersheba 1
and beersheba 1
from thence to beersheba 1
not to beersheba 1

Verses containing H884

Page 1 of 1. 33 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

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  2. Genesis 21:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

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  3. Genesis 21:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

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  4. Genesis 21:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

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  5. Genesis 22:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

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  6. Genesis 26:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

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  7. Genesis 26:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

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  8. Genesis 28:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

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  9. Genesis 46:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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  10. Genesis 46:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.

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  11. Joshua 15:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

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  12. Joshua 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

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  13. Judges 20:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

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  14. 1 Samuel 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

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  15. 1 Samuel 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

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  16. 2 Samuel 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

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  17. 2 Samuel 17:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.

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  18. 2 Samuel 24:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”

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  19. 2 Samuel 24:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

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  20. 2 Samuel 24:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

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  21. 1 Kings 4:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

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    Source alternate reference: 5.5

  22. 1 Kings 19:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

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  23. 2 Kings 12:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.2

  24. 2 Kings 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.

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  25. 1 Chronicles 4:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

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  26. 1 Chronicles 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”

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  27. 2 Chronicles 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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  28. 2 Chronicles 24:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

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  29. 2 Chronicles 30:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.

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  30. Nehemiah 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    in Hazar-shual; in Beersheba and its villages;

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  31. Nehemiah 11:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; and in Azekah and its villages. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.

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  32. Amos 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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  33. Amos 8:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

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