Strong's H884 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע (Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ)

Pronunciation: be-ayr' sheh'-bah

Morphology: n-pr-loc

Name Meaning: Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"

Derivation: from בְּאֵר (bᵉʼêr) [H875] and שֶׁבַע (shebaʻ) [H7651] (in the sense of שָׁבַע (shâbaʻ) [H7650]); well of an oath;

Definition: Beer-Sheba, a place in Palestine

KJV Renderings: Beer-shebah.

Senses

1. a city at the south edge of Israel

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.