Genesis 21:31

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 26:33 : 33 and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing `it' on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;
  • Gen 26:23 : 23 And he goeth up from thence `to' Beer-Sheba,
  • Josh 15:28 : 28 and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-Sheba, and Bizjothjah,
  • Judg 20:1 : 1 And all the sons of Israel go out, and the company is assembled as one man, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, and the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah, at Mizpeh.
  • 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 `So that I have counselled: Let all Israel be diligently gathered unto thee, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, as the sand that `is' by the sea for multitude, and thou thyself art going in the midst;
  • 1 Kgs 4:25 : 25 And Judah dwelleth -- and Israel -- in confidence, each under his vine, and under his fig-tree, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, all the days of Solomon.

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  • Gen 21:32-33
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    32And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth -- Phichol also, head of his host -- and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;

    33and `Abraham' planteth a tamarask in Beer-Sheba, and preacheth there in the name of Jehovah, God age-during;

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    31and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.

    32And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'

    33and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29And Abimelech saith unto Abraham, `What `are' they -- these seven lambs which thou hast set by themselves?'

    30And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

  • Gen 16:14
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    14therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Gen 22:19
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    19And Abraham turneth back unto his young men, and they rise and go together unto Beer-Sheba; and Abraham dwelleth in Beer-Sheba.

  • Gen 26:20-23
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    20and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water `is' ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

    21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'

    22And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

    23And he goeth up from thence `to' Beer-Sheba,

  • Gen 21:23-25
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    23and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

    24And Abraham saith, `I -- I do swear.'

    25And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

  • Gen 21:27
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    27And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;

  • Gen 35:14-15
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    14And Jacob setteth up a standing pillar in the place where He hath spoken with him, a standing pillar of stone, and he poureth on it an oblation, and he poureth on it oil;

    15and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.

  • Gen 26:25
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    25and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.

  • Gen 31:53
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    53the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, doth judge between us -- the God of their father,' and Jacob sweareth by the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • Num 21:16
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    16And from thence `they journeyed' to Beer; it `is' the well `concerning' which Jehovah said to Moses, `Gather the people, and I give to them -- water.'

  • Gen 31:47-48
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    47and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.

    48And Laban saith, `This heap `is' witness between me and thee to-day;' therefore hath he called its name Galeed;

  • 1 Chr 4:28
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    28And they dwell in Beer-Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shaul,

  • Josh 15:28
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    28and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-Sheba, and Bizjothjah,

  • Gen 46:1
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    1And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac;

  • Josh 19:2
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    2and they have in their inheritance Beer-Sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --

  • Heb 6:13
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    13For to Abraham God, having made promise, seeing He was able to swear by no greater, did swear by Himself,

  • Gen 33:20
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    20and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.

  • Neh 11:27
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    27and in Hazar-Shaul, and in Beer-Sheba and its small towns,

  • 1 Chr 16:16
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    16Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,

  • Gen 26:28
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    28And they say, `We have certainly seen that Jehovah hath been with thee, and we say, `Let there be, we pray thee, an oath between us, between us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

  • Gen 35:7
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    7and he buildeth there an altar, and proclaimeth at the place the God of Bethel: for there had God been revealed unto him, in his fleeing from the face of his brother.

  • Gen 26:17-18
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    17and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;

    18and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

  • Gen 24:9
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    9And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter.

  • Gen 22:14
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    14and Abraham calleth the name of that place `Jehovah-Jireh,' because it is said this day in the mount, `Jehovah doth provide.'

  • Ps 105:9
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    9That He hath made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,