Genesis 26:33
and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.
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- Gen 21:31 : 31 therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
- Gen 26:28 : 28 And 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;
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- Gen 21:30-334 verses82%
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;'
31therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
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;
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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;'
- Gen 26:17-237 verses78%
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.
19And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,
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,
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14therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.
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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.
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28and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-Sheba, and Bizjothjah,
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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.
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28And they dwell in Beer-Sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shaul,
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2and they have in their inheritance Beer-Sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,
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27and in Hazar-Shaul, and in Beer-Sheba and its small towns,
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15and Jacob calleth the name of the place where God spake with him Bethel.
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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.'
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6And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;
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20and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.
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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;
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38and Nebo, and Baal-Meon (changed in name), and Shibmah, and they call by `these' names the names of the cities which they have built.
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25Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
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15and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.
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19and he calleth the name of that place Bethel, `house of God,' and yet, Luz `is' the name of the city at the first.
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62And Isaac hath come in from the entrance of the Well of the Living One, my Beholder; and he is dwelling in the land of the south,
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36and Beth-Nimrah, and Beth-Haran, cities of defence, and sheepfolds.
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27And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which `is' Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.
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11And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.
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3(When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)
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47and Laban calleth it Jegar-Sahadutha; and Jacob hath called it Galeed.
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7and they come in to the fortress of Tyre, and all the cities of the Hivite, and of the Canaanite, and go out unto the south of Judah, to Beer-Sheba.
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37Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
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22and Beth-Arabah, Zemaraim, and Beth-El,
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14and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels) -- her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.'
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10And Jacob goeth out from Beer-Sheba, and goeth toward Haran,
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31and in Beth-Marcaboth, and in Hazar-Susim, and in Beth-Birei, and in Shaarim; these `are' their cities till the reigning of David.