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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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Wells Scripture - Numbers 20:17

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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Well in Smiths Bible Dictionary

Wells in Israel are usually excavated from the solid limestone rock, sometimes with steps to descend into them. Ge 24:16 The brims are furnished with a curb or low wall of stone, bearing marks of high antiquity in the furrows worn by the ropes used in drawing water. It was on a curb of this sort that our Lord sat when he conversed with the wom...

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Wells Scripture - Nehemiah 9:25

And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness....

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Well in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(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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Wells Scripture - 2 Chronicles 26:10

Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen [also], and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry....

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Well in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(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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Wells Scripture - Genesis 26:15

For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth....

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Wells Scripture - Genesis 26:18

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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Wells Scripture - Exodus 15:27

And they came to Elim, where [were] twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters....

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