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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H875

בְּאֵר

beerbe-ayr'

well

38 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: bᵉʼêr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H875is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 8 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 26
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H875

a pit; especially a well

The King James renders it: pit, well.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

beer is rendered "well". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.

  • Twenty-three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 14:10Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.

The first use

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Genesis 14:10בֶּֽאֱרֹ֤ת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-three of the word's thirty-eight uses are in Genesis.

The other 31 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • the well13
  • a well9
  • a well of3
  • well of2
  • and a well1
  • from the well1
  • O well1
  • own well your1
  • pit1
  • pits1
  • pits of1
  • the wells1

and 3 more, 38 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

בְּאֵרֹתִיBeerothiBeerothiteUses5
בְּאֹשׁbeoshstenchUses3
בְּאֻשִׁיםbeushimsour grapesUses2
בְּאָהbeahentranceUses1
בְּאֵשׁbeeshbe displeasedUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 38, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

26 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • בְּאֵ֣ר6
  • הַבְּאֵ֖ר3
  • הַבְּאֵ֔ר3
  • בְאֵ֑ר2
  • בְּאֵ֖ר2
  • הַבְּאֵֽר׃2
  • בְאֵ֣ר1
  • בְאֵ֖ר1
  • בְאֵ֛ר1
  • בְּאֵ֞ר1
  • בְּאֵֽר׃1
  • בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃1

and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular13HTd/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular11HNcfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2ms
  • preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
  • preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HR/Td/Ncfsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HTd/Ncfpa

Genesis

twenty-three uses
  • Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

    Genesis 14:10

    • בֶּֽאֱרֹ֤תbeerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pits
    • בֶּאֱרֹת֙beerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: pits of
  • Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.

    Genesis 16:14

    • לַבְּאֵ֔רlabeerpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the well
  • Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

    Genesis 21:19

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a well of
  • But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

    Genesis 21:25

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: well of
  • He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

    Genesis 21:30

    • הַבְּאֵ֥רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

    Genesis 24:11

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: well of
  • And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

    Genesis 24:20

    • הַבְּאֵ֖רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

    Genesis 26:15

    • הַבְּאֵרֹ֗תhabeerotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the wells
  • Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

    Genesis 26:18

    • בְּאֵרֹ֣תbeerotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: wells of
  • Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

    Genesis 26:19

    • בְּאֵ֖רbeernoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a well of
  • But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

    Genesis 26:20

    • הַבְּאֵר֙habeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

    Genesis 26:21

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

    Genesis 26:22

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

    Genesis 26:25

    • בְּאֵֽר׃beernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

    Genesis 26:32

    • הַבְּאֵ֖רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

    Genesis 29:2

    • בְאֵ֣רveernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
    • הַבְּאֵ֣רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
    • הַבְּאֵֽר׃habeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

    Genesis 29:3

    • הַבְּאֵ֔רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
    • הַבְּאֵ֖רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

    Genesis 29:8

    • הַבְּאֵ֑רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

    Genesis 29:10

    • הַבְּאֵ֔רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well

Exodus

one use
  • When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

    Exodus 2:15

    • הַבְּאֵֽר׃habeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well

Numbers

five uses
  • Please let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

    Numbers 20:17

    • בְאֵ֑רveernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”

    Numbers 21:16

    • הַבְּאֵ֗רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

    Numbers 21:17

    • בְאֵ֖רveernoun · feminine singulartagged: O well
  • The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

    Numbers 21:18

    • בְּאֵ֞רbeernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • “Let us pass through your land. We will not cut through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

    Numbers 21:22

    • בְאֵ֑רveernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well

2 Samuel

three uses
  • But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

    2 Samuel 17:18

    • בְאֵ֛רveernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well
  • Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

    2 Samuel 17:19

    • הַבְּאֵ֔רhabeerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the well
  • After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

    2 Samuel 17:21

    • מֵֽהַבְּאֵ֔רmehabeerpreposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: from the well

Psalms

two uses
  • But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

    Psalms 55:23

    • לִבְאֵ֬רliverpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to pit of
  • Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

    Psalms 69:15

    • בְּאֵ֣רbeernoun · feminine singulartagged: pit

Proverbs

two uses
  • Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

    Proverbs 5:15

    • בְּאֵרֶֽךָ׃beerekhanoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: own well your
  • For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

    Proverbs 23:27

    • וּבְאֵ֥רuveerconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a well

Song of Solomon

one use
  • You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

    Song of Solomon 4:15

    • בְּאֵ֖רbeernoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a well of

Jeremiah

one use
  • As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.

    Jeremiah 6:7

    • בַּ֙יִר֙bevernoun · feminine singulartagged: a well

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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