Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H884
בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע
Beer Shebabe-ayr' sheh'-bah
Beersheba
68 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H884is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H884
Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine
The King James renders it: Beer-shebah.
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 Sheba is rendered "Beersheba". It stands 68 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Twenty-two of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 21:14Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 21:14בְּאֵ֥ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-two of the word's sixty-eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Sheba34
- Beer17
- from Beer8
- in Beer4
- and Beer2
- and in Beer1
- at Beer1
- Beer towards1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּאֵר | beer | well | Uses38 |
| בְּאֵרֹתִי | Beerothi | Beerothite | Uses5 |
| בְּאֹשׁ | beosh | stench | Uses3 |
| בְּאֻשִׁים | beushim | sour grapes | Uses2 |
| בְּאָה | beah | entrance | Uses1 |
| בְּאֵשׁ | beesh | be displeased | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 68, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- בְּאֵ֣ר10
- שָׁ֑בַע10
- שָֽׁבַע׃7
- שֶׁ֖בַע6
- בְּאֵ֥ר5
- שֶׁ֔בַע5
- מִבְּאֵ֥ר4
- בְּאֵֽר־2
- בִּבְאֵ֣ר2
- בִּבְאֵ֥ר2
- וּבְאֵ֥ר2
- מִבְּאֵ֣ר2
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)51HNpl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)13HR/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
- proper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)1HNpl/Sd
Genesis
twenty-two uses
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- בְּאֵ֥רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines.
- בִּבְאֵ֣רbiverpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
- בִּבְאֵ֣רbiverpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
- בִּבְאֵ֥רbiverpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃ פshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,
- בְּאֵ֥רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֔בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
- מִבְּאֵ֣רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
- בְּאֵ֣רָהbeerahproper noun (a name) + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: Beer towards
- שָּׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.
- מִבְּאֵ֣רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Joshua
four uses
Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
- וּבְאֵ֥רuveerconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
- בְּאֵֽר־beer-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֥בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Judges
two uses
Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֔בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
1 Samuel
four uses
So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.
- בִּבְאֵ֥רbiverpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
2 Samuel
ten uses
to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”
- בְּאֵ֥רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֔בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So the king said to Joab the commander of his army, who was with him, “Go now throughout the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and register the troops, so that I may know their number.”
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֔בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.
- בְּאֵ֥רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֔בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
1 Kings
four uses
Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
- בְּאֵ֥רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
2 Kings
four uses
In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
- מִבְּאֵ֥רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which was to the left of the city gate.
- בְּאֵ֣רbeerproper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
1 Chronicles
four uses
They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
- בִּבְאֵֽר־biver-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Beer
- שֶׁ֥בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan and bring me a report, so that I may know their number.”
- מִבְּאֵ֥רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
2 Chronicles
six uses
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- מִבְּאֵ֥רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שֶׁ֙בַע֙sheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
- מִבְּאֵ֥רmibeerpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שָֽׁבַע׃shava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it as a nation as prescribed.
- מִבְּאֵֽר־mibeer-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שֶׁ֣בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Nehemiah
four uses
in Hazar-shual; in Beersheba and its villages;
- וּבִבְאֵ֥רuviverconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and in Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages; in Lachish and its fields; and in Azekah and its villages. So they settled from Beersheba all the way to the Valley of Hinnom.
- מִבְּאֵֽר־mibeer-preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: from Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Amos
four uses
Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
- וּבְאֵ֥רuveerconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Beer
- שֶׁ֖בַעsheva'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”
- בְּאֵֽר־beer-proper noun (a name)tagged: Beer
- שָׁ֑בַעshava'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sheba
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.