Beer in the Bible

Meaning: a well

Exact Match

And they abode at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shual,

And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan and bring a report to me so I can know their number.”

Verse ConceptsCounting Soldiers

Thematic Bible



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. Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it: 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:


Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain