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Strong's #883 - בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי

Transliteration

Bᵉʼêr la-Chay Rôʼîy

Phonetics

be-ayr' lakh-ah'ee ro-ee'

Origin

from (H875) and (H2416) (with prefix) and (H7203)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Location

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Beer-lahai-roi = “well of the Living One seeing me”

1) a well west of Kadesh, south of Israel

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (3)

Genesis 3

NAS (3)

Genesis 3

HCS (3)

Genesis 3

BSB (4)

Genesis 4

ESV (3)

Genesis 3

WEB (3)

Genesis 3

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי proper name, of a location (literally well of the living One that seeth me) **לַחַי perhaps originally I. לְחִי jaw(-bone); on proper name, of a location compared with לחי, γνάφος, see ᵐ5^{Judges 15:9} We^{Prol. 344} Nes^{AJSL xiii {1897} 176}. Genesis 16:14 (where explanation, from story of Hagar) Genesis 24:62; Genesis 25:11 (all J); perhaps name of ancient shrine or holy place, compare Sta^{ZAW ii. 347 &} Di Genesis 16:14; west of Kadesh, compare Jerome below Barad, Lag^{Onom. 101,2nd ed. 135}, see Rowlands in Williams^{Holy City, 489} Trumbull^{Kadesh-Barnea 64}.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי (“well of the life of vision,” i.e. where after the vision of God, my life is nevertheless preserved, comp. Judges 6:22, seq.), pr.n. of a well in the southern borders of Palestine; Genesis 16:14, 24:62 25:11. The etymology above stated is given by the sacred writer himself, Genesis 16:14 [which is of course of absolute authority]; by rejecting the vowels one might have conjectured the name of the well to have been בְּאֵר לְחִירֳאִי “the well of the conspicuous jaw-bone,” i.e. rock (Judges 15:19 ), or region (comp. عَارِضَةُ a jaw-bone, a region).

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List of Word Forms

רֹאִ֑י רֹאִֽי׃ ראי ראי׃ rō’î rō·’î roI