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Beer. [Be'er]


1. A station of the Israelites when they drew near the Land, so called because of a well (which the word signifies) being sunk there, from which God gave them water. They sang -


"Spring up, O well; sing ye to it:


The princes digged the well,


The nobles of the people digged it


By the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves."


Num. 21:16-18. Probably the same as BEER-ELIM of Isa. 15: 8.


2. Place to which Jotham fled for fear of his brother Abimelech. Judges 9: 21. Its position unknown.