Quick Definition
well
Strong's Definition
a pit; especially a well
Derivation: from H874 (בָּאַר);
KJV Usage: pit, well.
TWOT Reference: 194a
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בְּאֵר (be.er) — well. well, pit, spring
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun f · בֹּור · בַּיִר · באר · בְּאֵר אֵילִים · בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי · בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע · בְּאֵרָא · בְּאֵרָה · בְּאֵרֹות · בְּאֵרִי · בְּאֵרֹת בְּנֵי־יַעֲקָן · בַּעֲלַת בְּאֵר
Waterbodies | ≈ בֹּור · גֵּב · עַיִן
well, watering place, spring = hole in the ground that reaches underground water; ◄ usually manmade, dug out of the ground, or hewn from rock, but may also be naturally-occurring; ► used for accessing, collecting and storing water; used by shepherds as a source of water for their animals; ≈ regarded as a source of life because of its water; sometimes used as a metaphor for a woman, possibly based on the physical resemblance of the well to the vagina and its connotation as a source of life
GEN 16:14 · GEN 21:19 · GEN 21:25 · GEN 21:30 · GEN 24:11 · GEN 24:20 · GEN 26:15 · GEN 26:18 · GEN 26:19 · GEN 26:20 · GEN 26:21 · GEN 26:22 · GEN 26:25 · GEN 26:32 · GEN 29:2 · GEN 29:2 · GEN 29:2 · GEN 29:3 · GEN 29:3 · GEN 29:8 · GEN 29:10 · EXO 2:15 · NUM 20:17 · NUM 21:16 · NUM 21:17 · NUM 21:18 · NUM 21:22 · 2SA 17:18 · 2SA 17:19 · 2SA 17:21 · PRO 5:15 · SNG 4:15
Landforms
Collocation: בֶּאֱרֹת חֵמָר
tar pit, bitumen pit = hole in the ground where crude oil seeps to the surface from inside the earth
Landforms
pit = naturally occurring depression, hole or pit, usually containing a substance in liquid form; ≈ a metaphor for death, based on the physical resemblance of a pit to a grave, on the danger of falling into a pit, or being drowned by water in it, and on the depth of a pit recalling the underworld place of the dead
name · באר
Names of Locations
Beer = location with a well; ◄ in Sinai peninsula; ► the Israelites encamped there on their way from Egypt to Canaan
Names of Locations
Beer = town, possibly to be identified with Beeroth; ◄ located around ten kilometers north of Jerusalem; territory of Benjamin
Names of Locations
Collocation: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע
Beersheba = town; ◄ located in the Negeb, at the southern border of Judah; ► used esp. in combination with Dan at the northern border of Israel to refer to all Israel
GEN 21:14 · GEN 21:31 · GEN 21:32 · GEN 21:33 · GEN 22:19 · GEN 22:19 · GEN 26:23 · GEN 26:33 · GEN 28:10 · GEN 46:1 · GEN 46:5 · JOS 15:28 · JOS 19:2 · JDG 20:1 · 1SA 3:20 · 1SA 8:2 · 2SA 3:10 · 2SA 17:11 · 2SA 24:2 · 2SA 24:7 · 2SA 24:15 · 1KI 5:5 · 1KI 19:3 · 2KI 12:2 · 2KI 23:8 · 1CH 4:28 · 1CH 21:2 · 2CH 19:4 · 2CH 24:1 · 2CH 30:5 · NEH 11:27 · NEH 11:30 · AMO 5:5 · AMO 8:14
1 2SA 17:18 · 2SA 17:19 · 2SA 17:21 Dalman (|iArbeit und Sitte in Palästina|i*, V 3 [Gütersloh 1928–42], 200) thinks this must be a place for storing grain, since the two men hide in it.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
בְּאֵר n.f. Gn 26:21 well, pit a well, often as made by digging
pit
as n.pr.loc. a station of Isr. in desert
8 miles north of Eleutheropolis
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