- BEER-ELIM well of heroes, probably the name given to Beer, the place
where the chiefs of Israel dug a well (Numbers 21:16; Isaiah 15:8). - BEERI illustrious, or the well-man. (1.) The father of Judith, one of the
wives of Esau (Genesis 26:34), the same as Adah (Genesis 36:2). (2.) The
father of the prophet Hosea (1:1). - BEER-LAHAI-ROI 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 (Genesis 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. - BEEROTH wells, one of the four cities of the Hivites which entered by
fraud into a league with Joshua. It belonged to Benjamin (Joshua 18:25). It
has by some been identified with el-Bireh on the way to Nablus, 10 miles
north of Jerusalem. - BEEROTH OF THE CHILDREN OF JAAKAN (Deuteronomy 10:6). The
same as Bene-jaakan (Numbers 33:31). - BEERSHEBA well of the oath, or well of seven, a well dug by Abraham,
and so named because he and Abimelech here entered into a compact
(Genesis 21:31). On re-opening it, Isaac gave it the same name (Genesis
26:31-33). It was a favourite place of abode of both of these patriarchs
(21:33-22:1, 19; 26:33; 28:10). It is mentioned among the “cities” given to
the tribe of Simeon (Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28). From Dan to
Beersheba, a distance of about 144 miles (Judges 20:1; 1 Chronicles 21:2; 2
Samuel 24:2), became the usual way of designating the whole Promised
Land, and passed into a proverb. After the return from the Captivity the
phrase is narrowed into “from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom”
(Nehemiah 11:30). The kingdom of the ten tribes extended from Beersheba
to Mount Ephraim (2 Chronicles 19:4). The name is not found in the New
Testament. It is still called by the Arabs Bir es-Seba, i.e., “well of the
seven”, where there are to the present day two principal wells and five
smaller ones. It is nearly midway between the southern end of the Dead
Sea and the Mediterranean. - BEETLE (Hebrews hargol, meaning “leaper”). Mention of it is made only
in Leviticus 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the
beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, “which has
kiana
(Kiana)
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