Beer. [Be'er]

1. A station of the Israelites when they drew near the Land, so called because of a well (which the word signifies) being sunk there, from which God gave them water. They sang -
"Spring up, O well; sing ye to it:
The princes digged the well,
The nobles of the people digged it
By the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves."

Numbers 21:16-18. Probably the same as BEER-ELIM of Isaiah 15:8.

2. Place to which Jotham fled for fear of his brother Abimelech. Judges 9:21. Its position unknown.


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