Lexicon :: Strong's H8033 - šām

The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.

A river went[fn] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.[fn]

So the LORD God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.

Pathrus, Casluh (the Philistines came from them), and Caphtor.

As people migrated from the east,[fn] they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

“Come, let’s go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[fn] I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Now the Siddim Valley contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,[fn] but the rest fled to the mountains.

The men got up from there and looked out over Sodom, and Abraham was walking with them to see them off.

The men turned from there and went toward Sodom while Abraham remained standing before the LORD.[fn]

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

“Look, this town is close enough for me to flee to. It is a small place. Please let me run to it ​— ​it’s only a small place, isn’t it? ​— ​so that I can survive.”

“Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.[fn]

Early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

“So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, ‘He’s my brother.’ ”

God heard the boy crying, and the[fn] angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What’s wrong, Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard the boy crying from the place where he is.

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba[fn] because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac[fn] and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”

This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hethites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.

When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see[fn] Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

So Isaac left there, camped in the Gerar Valley, and lived there.

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of spring[fn] water there.

He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth[fn] and said, “For now the LORD has made space for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

“Go to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, and I will make them into a delicious meal for your father ​— ​the kind he loves.

“until your brother’s rage turns away from you and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose you both in one day? ”