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Numbers 21:18
“The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H875 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a pit; especially a well
- Derivation
- from H874 (בָּאַר);
- KJV renderings
- pit, well.
- Grammar
- בְּאֵ֞ר — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 37 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 14:10Genesis 14:10Genesis 16:14Genesis 21:19Genesis 21:25
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּאֵר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.