Beer Lahai Roi

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Beer Lahai Roi: NET NIV
Beer-Lahai-Roi: AVS TEV
Beer-lahai-roi: NRSV NASB

name of a well that lies between Kadesh and Bered

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the well of him that liveth and seeth me

Google Maps: Beer-lahai-roi (30° 41´, 34° 29´)

Hebrew

Strongs #0883: yar yxl rab B@'er la-Chay Ro'iy

Beer-lahai-roi = "well of the Living One seeing me"

1) a well west of Kadesh, south of Israel

883 B'er la-Chay Ro'iy be-ayr' lakh-ah'ee ro-ee'

from 875 and 2416 (with prefix) and 7203; well of a living
(One) my Seer; Beer-Lachai-Roi, a place in the
Desert:-Beer-lahai-roi.
see HEBREW for 0875
see HEBREW for 02416
see HEBREW for 07203

Beer-lahai-roi [EBD]

i.e., "the well of him that liveth and seeth me," or, as some render it, "the well of the vision of life", the well where the Lord met with Hagar (Gen. 16:7-14). Isaac dwelt beside this well (24:62; 25:11). It has been identified with 'Ain Muweileh, or Moilahhi, south-west of Beersheba, and about 12 miles W. from Kadesh-barnea.

Beer-lahai-roi [NAVE]

BEER-LAHAI-ROI, called also Lahai-roi, a well, Gen. 16:14; 24:62; 25:11.

BEER-LAHAI-ROI [ISBE]

BEER-LAHAI-ROI - be-er-la-hi'-roi, be-er-la-hi-ro'-i (be'er lachai ro'i, "well of the Living One that seeth me"): "A fountain of water in the wilderness," "the fountain in the way to Shur" (Gen 16:7-14). It was the scene of Hagar's theophany, and here Isaac dwelt for some time (Gen 16:7 f; 24:62; 25:11). The site is in The Negeb between Kadesh and Bered (Gen 16:14). Rowland identifies the well with the modern `Ain Moilaihhi, circa 50 miles South of Beersheba and 12 miles West of `Ain Kadis. Cheyne thinks that Hagar's native country, to which she was fleeing and from which she took a wife for Ishmael, was not Egypt (mitsrayim), but a north Arabian district called by the Assyrians Mucri (Encyclopedia Biblica).

S. F. Hunter