Wells
(Heb. beer), to be distinguished from a fountain (Heb. 'ain).
A
"beer" was a deep shaft, bored far under the rocky
surface by
the art of man, which contained water which percolated
through
the strata in its sides. Such wells were those of
Jacob and
Beersheba, etc. (see Gen. 21:19, 25, 30, 31; 24:11;
26:15,
18-25, 32, etc.). In the Pentate...
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And houses full of all good [things], which thou filledst not,
and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive
trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten
and be full;...
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Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not
pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither
will we drink [of] the water of the wells: we will go by the
king's [high] way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to
the left, until we have passed thy borders....
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And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city,
and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water,
and mar every good piece of land with stones....
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And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had
digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines
had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called
their names after the names by which his father had called
them....
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These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a
tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever....
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And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land
cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all
the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in
Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers
went about [it], and smote it....
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(See FOUNTAIN.) As ''Ayin, "fount," literally, "eye", refers
to the water springing up to us, so beer, "well," from a
root "to bore," refers to our finding our way down to it.
The Bir- and the En- are always distinct. The rarity of
wells in the Sinaitic region explains the national
rejoicings over Beer or the well, afterward Beer-Elim, "well
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(1) (be'er; compare Arabic bi'r, "well" or "cistern";
usually artificial: "And Isaac's servants digged (dug) in
the valley, and found there a well of springing (margin
"living") water" (Gen 26:19); some times covered: "Jacob
.... rolled the stone from the well's mouth" (Gen 29:10).
Be'er may also be a pit: "The vale of Siddim was full of
slim...
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The occasion of feuds
Between Abraham and Abimelech
Ge 21:25-30
Between Isaac and Abimelech
Ge 26:15-22,32,33
-Of Jacob
Joh 4:6
-Of Solomon
Ec 2:6
-Of Uzziah
2Ch 26:10
-Of Hezekiah
See GIHON
-At Haran
Ge 24:16
-FlGURATIVE
Of salvation
Isa 12:3; Joh 4:14
Without water
Jer 15:18; 2Pe 2:17...
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