Lexicon :: Strong's H875 - bᵊ'ēr

Now the Siddim Valley contained many asphalt pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into them,[fn] but the rest fled to the mountains.

That is why the well is called Beer-lahai-roi.[fn] It is between Kadesh and Bered.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from me so that this act[fn] will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”

At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and hurried to the well again to draw water. She drew water for all his camels

Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

On that same day Isaac’s servants came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water! ”

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,[fn] he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

“Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’ ”

From there they went to Beer,[fn] the well the LORD told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.”

“Let us travel through your land. We won’t go into the fields or vineyards. We won’t drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway until we have traveled through your territory.”

However, a young man did see them and informed Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

After they had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well and went and informed King David. They told him, “Get up and immediately ford the river, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

God, you will bring them down

to the Pit of destruction;

men of bloodshed and treachery

will not live out half their days.

But I will trust in you.

Don’t let the floodwaters sweep over me

or the deep swallow me up;

don’t let the Pit close its mouth over me.

Drink water from your own cistern,

water flowing from your own well.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,

and a wayward woman is a narrow well;

You are a garden spring,

a well of flowing water

streaming from Lebanon.