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HEBREW: 876 rab B@'er
NAVE: Beer
SMITH: BEER
ISBE: BEER
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Beer

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Beer: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a place where Israel encamped north of the Arnon in Moab (OS)
a town located perhaps west of Beth-Shan (OS)

a well
Google Maps: Beer (30° 59´, 35° 29´)

Hebrew

Strongs #0876: rab B@'er

Beer = "well"

1) an oasis rest in desert during the Exodus
2) a city west of Hebron

876 B'er be-ayr'

the same as 875; Beer, a place in the Desert, also one in
Palestine:-Beer.
see HEBREW for 0875

Beer [NAVE]

BEER
1. A station of the Israelites, Num. 21:16-18.
2. A town in the tribe of Judah, Judg. 9:21.

BEER [SMITH]

(a well).
  1. One of the latest halting-places of the Israelites, lying beyond the Arnon. (Numbers 21:16-18) This is possibly the BEER-ELIM of (Isaiah 15:8)
  2. A place to which Jotham, the son of Gideon, fled for fear of his brother Abimelech. (Judges 9:21)

BEER [ISBE]

BEER - be'-er (be'er; phrear; Latin puteus = "well"):

(1) A station on the march of the Israelites to the North of the Arnon (Nu 21:16). Here it was that they sang round the well this song:

`Spring up O well; greet it with song,

Well, that the princes have dug,

The nobles of the people have bored,

With the scepter--with their staves' (Nu 21:16 ff).

The place is not identified.

(2) The town to which Jotham fled from his brother Abimelech after declaring his parable from Mt. Gerizim (Jdg 9:21). This may be identical with BEEROTH, which see.


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