Beer
In Bible versions:
Beer: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEVa place where Israel encamped north of the Arnon in Moab (OS)
a town located perhaps west of Beth-Shan (OS)
Hebrew
Strongs #0876: rab B@'er
Beer = "well"1) an oasis rest in desert during the Exodus
2) a city west of Hebron
876 B'er be-ayr'
the same as 875; Beer, a place in the Desert, also one in Palestine: KJV -- Beer.see HEBREW for 0875
Beer [nave]
BEER1. A station of the Israelites, Num. 21:16-18.
2. A town in the tribe of Judah, Judg. 9:21.
Beer [ebd]
Well. (1.) A place where a well was dug by the direction of Moses, at the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings Nu 21:16-18 in the wilderness of Moab. [See WELL] (2.) A town in the tribe of Judah to which Jotham fled for fear of Abimelech Jud 9:21 Some have identified this place with Beeroth.
BEER [smith]
(a well).- One of the latest halting-places of the Israelites, lying beyond the Arnon. (Numbers 21:16-18) This is possibly the BEER-ELIM of (Isaiah 15:8)
- A place to which Jotham, the son of Gideon, fled for fear of his brother Abimelech. (Judges 9:21)
BEER [isbe]
BEER - be'-er (be'er; phrear; Latin puteus = "well"):(1) A station on the march of the Israelites to the North of the Arnon (Nu 21:16). Here it was that they sang round the well this song:
`Spring up O well; greet it with song,
Well, that the princes have dug,
The nobles of the people have bored,
With the scepter--with their staves' (Nu 21:16 ff).
The place is not identified.
(2) The town to which Jotham fled from his brother Abimelech after declaring his parable from Mt. Gerizim (Jdg 9:21). This may be identical with BEEROTH, which see.
