What are the places called…
Beer

also known as: Be'er

Hebrew: בְּאֵר —transliteration: Beer —meaning: well

Beer is the name of a biblical place and a town.

1. Beer, a place in the desert where a well was dug by the direction of Moses, at the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings in the wilderness of Moab

   And from there they continued to Beer, that is the well where Yahweh said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.” —Numbers 21:16 LSB

   Here the Israelites sang a song (Numbers 21:17-18).

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2. Beer, a town in the tribe of Judah to which Jotham fled for fear of Abimelech (Judges 9:21). Some have identified this place with Beeroth.

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• Answers about wells in the Bible
• Similar names:
  —Beer-elim
  —Beeri
  —Beer-lahai-roi
  —Beeroth
  —Beersheba
  —Baalath-beer
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