Beersheba in the Bible

Meaning: the well of an oath; the seventh well

Exact Match

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantWellsPeople Naming Things

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

Verse ConceptsDepartures

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

Verse ConceptsRefugeesSacrifice, In Ot

And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Verse ConceptsCartsImmigrants

References

Hastings

Easton

Fausets