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Beer-Sheba
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
The well of an oath; So called, because here it was that Abraham made a covenant with Abimelech. (Genesis 26:33) The word is a compound of Beer, well; and Shabah, swearing.
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Beer-Sheba'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/b/beer-sheba.html. London. 1828.