Genesis 21:33
grove. or, tree.Am 8:14The original word {eshel,} has been variously translated a grove, a plantation, an orchard, a cultivated field, and an oak; but it may denote a kind of tamarisk, as it is rendered by Gesenius, the same with the Arabic {athl.} Beer-sheba.De 16:21; Jud 3:7called.4:26; 12:8; 26:23,25,33on the name.Dr. Shuckford justly contends, that the expression rendered, "he called on the name," signifies "he invoked in the name." everlasting.De 33:27; Ps 90:2; Isa 40:28; 57:15; Jer 10:10; Ro 1:20; 16:261Ti 1:17Genesis 22:19
So Abraham.5to Beer-sheba.21:31; Jos 15:28; Jud 20:1Genesis 26:33
Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore.21:31Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath.28This may have been the same city which was called Beer-sheba a hundred years before this, in the time of Abraham; but as the well, from which it had its name originally, was closed up by the Philistines, the name of the place might have been abolished with the well; when, therefore, Isaac re-opened it, he restored the ancient name of the place.Genesis 46:1
1 Jacob is comforted by God at Beer-sheba.5 Thence he with his company goes into Egypt.8 The number of his family that went into Egypt.28 Joseph meets Jacob.31 He instructs his brethren how to answer Pharaoh. A.M. 2298. B.C. 1706. Beer-sheba.21:14,31,33; 26:22,23; 28:10; 1Sa 3:20and offered.4:4; 8:20; 12:8; 22:13; 33:20; 35:3,7; Job 1:5; 42:8unto.21:33; 26:23,25; 28:13; 31:42,531 Kings 19:3
he arose.Ge 12:12,13; Ex 2:15; 1Sa 27:1; Isa 51:12,13; Mt 26:56,70-742Co 12:7Beer-sheba.4:25; Ge 21:31; Am 7:12,13
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