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bᵊʾēr ševaʿ בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע ‘Beer-sheba’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from bᵊʾēr בְּאֵר ‘well’ and ševaʿ שֶׁ֫בַע ‘seven’ in the sense of šāvaʿ שָׁבַע ‘to swear’
Roots: באר שׁבע שׁבע

bᵊʾēr ševaʿ pr n loc
Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"
1) a city at the south edge of Israel

Mentioned in Genesis 46:1, 46:5, 21:32, 21:14, 22:19, 21:33, 26:33, 21:31, 26:23, 28:10 Joshua 15:28, 19:2 Judges 20:1 1 Samuel 8:2, 3:20 2 Samuel 24:15, 24:2, 24:7, 17:11, 3:10 1 Kings 5:5, 19:3 2 Kings 23:8, 12:2 Amos 5:5, 8:14 Nehemiah 11:27, 11:30 1 Chronicles 21:2, 4:28 2 Chronicles 19:4, 30:5, 24:1

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