28 Hazar-shual, (A)Beersheba, Biziothiah,

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33 He called it Shibah;[a] therefore the name of the city is (A)Beersheba to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:33 Shibah sounds like the Hebrew for oath

28 (A)They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

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(A)And they had for their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,

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31 Therefore (A)that place was called Beersheba,[a] because there both of them swore an oath. 32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and (B)called there on the name of the Lord, (C)the Everlasting God.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 21:31 Beersheba means well of seven or well of the oath

14 So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of (A)Beersheba.

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