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Strong's Number G5421 matches the Greek φρέαρ (phrear),
which occurs 37 times in 31 verses in 'Gen'
in the LXX Greek.
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.
Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.
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.”
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba[fn] because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.
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
Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,[fn] for he was living in the Negev region.
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.
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours! ” So he named the well Esek[fn] because they argued with him.
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Sitnah.[fn]
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth[fn] and said, “For now the LORD has made space for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
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.
The shepherds would roll the stone from the opening of the well and water the sheep when all the flocks[fn] were gathered there. Then they would return the stone to its place over the well’s opening.
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.
Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
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