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Lexicon :: Strong's H875 - bᵊ'ēr

Aa
בְּאֵר
Transliteration
bᵊ'ēr
Pronunciation
be-ayr'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 194a

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: באר.

Strong’s Definitions

בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr, be-ayr'; from H874; a pit; especially a well:—pit, well.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x

The KJV translates Strong's H875 in the following manner: well (32x), pit (3x), slimepits (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 37x
The KJV translates Strong's H875 in the following manner: well (32x), pit (3x), slimepits (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. well, pit, spring

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בְּאֵר bᵉʼêr, be-ayr'; from H874; a pit; especially a well:—pit, well.
STRONGS H875: Abbreviations
† בְּאֵר noun feminineGenesis 26:21 well, pit, mostly Hexateuch, Genesis 23 times, Exodus 1 time, Numbers 5 times, + 37 times in all; Arabic bdb009102, Aramaic בְּאֵרָא, בֵּיר, בֵּירָא, bdb009103, Sabean באר DHMZMG. 1875, 608, Assyrian bêru, LyonSargon 61 (connection with above √ not clear; Lagl.c. spring of water, as coming to light, appearing; possible, although meaning in use rather well, than spring; see however, Genesis 16:14 compare Genesis 16:7; Genesis 26:19; Numbers 21:17) — בּ׳ absolute Genesis 21:30 +; construct Genesis 21:19 +; suffix בְּאֵֶר֑ךָ Proverbs 5:15; Plural absolute בְּאֵרֹת Genesis 26:15; construct id. Genesis 26:18; compare בֶּאֱרֹת בֶּאֱרֹת חֵמָר Genesis 14:10; —
† 1. a well, often as made by digging (חָפַר) Genesis 21:25, 30 (E), Genesis 26:15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 32 (all J), also in poetry Numbers 21:18 (+ כרה) see also [H876 Numbers 21:16]; Numbers 21:17 (where the well addressed, in song, עֲלִי בְאֵר); also with כרה in prose Genesis 26:25; also with no reference to its origin Genesis 16:14 (J; || עַיִן Genesis 16:7), Genesis 29:2; Exodus 2:15 (J) Numbers 20:17; Numbers 21:22 (E) 2 Samuel 17:18, 21; בְּאֵר (ה)מַיִם Genesis 21:19 (E) Genesis 24:11 (J; || עַיִן Genesis 24:13; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 24:43; Genesis 24:45); (compare also Genesis 21:25; Genesis 26:18 above & especially Genesis 26:19 בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים); water taken from it by drawing (שָׁאַב) Genesis 24:11, 20; flocks watered from it (הִשְׁקָה מִןֿ) Genesis 29:2, 3, 8, 10 (compare especially Exodus 2:16 they drew, דלה, and filled the troughs); also מִתּוֺךְ בְּאֵרֶ֑ךָ.... שְׁתֵה מַיִם Proverbs 5:15 (|| בּוֺר); the opening called פִּי הַבְּאֵר Genesis 29:2, 3 (twice in verse); Genesis 29:8, 10; compare הַבּ׳ פְּנֵי 2 Samuel 17:19 (read probably פּי so SAM Targum Syriac Version Vulgate, compare Dr); figurative of fresh delights of woman beloved Songs 4:15 מַעְיַן גַּנִּים בְּאֵר מַיִם חַיִּים וְנוֺזְלִים מִןלְֿבָנוֺן.
† 2. pit (= בּוֺר); pits of bitumen Genesis 14:10 (compare above); בְּאֵר שַׁחַת Psalm 55:24 [Psalm 55:23] pit of (the) grave; compare Psalm 69:16 פִּיהָ בְּאֵר עָלַי וְאַל־תֶּאְטַר and let not (the) pit shut its mouth over me (|| מְצוּלָה); figurative of strange woman בְּאֵר צָרָה a narrow pit, out of which rescue is difficult Proverbs 23:27 (|| שׁוּחָה עֲמֻקָּה).
† 3. as proper name, of a location.
† a. with ה ָ locative בְּאֵ֫רָה a station of Israel in desert [H876 Numbers 21:16], possibly = בְּאֵר אֵילִים [H879 Isaiah 15:8].
† b. same form [H876 Judges 9:21], according to Euseb. LagOnom. 238, 2nd ed. 250 8 miles north of Eleutheropolis; compare RobBR i. 452 who compares el-Bîreh, near Beth-shemesh.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:10; 14:10; 16:7; 16:7; 16:14; 16:14; 21:19; 21:19; 21:25; 21:25; 21:30; 21:30; 24:11; 24:11; 24:13; 24:16; 24:20; 24:43; 24:45; 26:15; 26:15; 26:18; 26:18; 26:18; 26:19; 26:19; 26:19; 26:21; 26:21; 26:22; 26:25; 26:32; 29:2; 29:2; 29:2; 29:3; 29:3; 29:8; 29:8; 29:10; 29:10

Exodus

2:15; 2:16

Numbers

20:17; 21:17; 21:17; 21:18; 21:22

2 Samuel

17:18; 17:19; 17:21

Psalms

55:23; 69:16

Proverbs

5:15; 5:15; 23:27

Song of Songs

4:15

H875

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Strong's Number H875 matches the Hebrew בְּאֵר (bᵊ'ēr),
which occurs 37 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:14 - So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:19 - Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:25 - But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:30 - And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:15 - Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:18 - And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:20 - But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:21 - Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:32 - And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:15 - Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:17 - Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:16 - From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:17 - Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:18 - The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:22 - Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - But a boy saw them, and gave word of it to Absalom: so the two of them went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim who had a water-hole in his garden, and they went down into it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:19 - And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:21 - Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:23 - But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:15 - Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:15 - Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.
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