בְּאֵרbᵉʼêr/be-ayr'/
HebrewH87537 occurrences (KJV)
a pit; especially a well
KJV renders it: pit, well.
Where it appears(showing the first 33 of 37)
- Gen 14:10Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and some fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
- Gen 16:14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
- Gen 21:19God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
- Gen 21:25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
- Gen 21:30He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”
- Gen 24:11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
- Gen 24:20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
- Gen 26:15Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
- Gen 26:18Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- Gen 26:19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Gen 26:20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Gen 26:21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
- Gen 26:22He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
- Gen 26:25He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
- Gen 26:32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
- Gen 29:2He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well’s mouth was large.
- Gen 29:3There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well’s mouth in its place.
- Gen 29:8They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then we water the sheep.”
- Gen 29:10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
- Exod 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.
- Num 20:17“Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
- Num 21:16From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”
- Num 21:17Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,
- Num 21:18the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;
- Num 21:22“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”
- 2 Sam 17:18But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
- 2 Sam 17:19The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.
- 2 Sam 17:21After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”
- Ps 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
- Ps 69:15Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.
- Prov 5:15Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.
- Prov 23:27For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
- Song 4:15a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, flowing streams from Lebanon.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.