Gen 26:33
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city {is} Beersheba unto this day. {Shebah: That is, an oath} {Beersheba: that is, the well of the oath}
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Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. {Beersheba: that is, The well of the oath}
And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, {even} betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; {We saw...: Heb. Seeing we saw}
Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. {Beersheba: that is, The well of the oath}
And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave {it} unto Hagar, putting {it} on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
And {Abraham} planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. {grove: or, tree}
And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and {in} the villages thereof,
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.