Beer (Bible)

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Beer (Hebrew בְּאֵר beʾēr, well, cistern) is mentioned in the Tanach (or the Christian Old Testament ) in two places as a separate place name. In addition, Beer can be found in various compound place names that each refer to a fountain.

In Num 21,16  EU Beer is a station in the Transjordan on the desert migration of the people of Israel . Verse 18 makes the additional statement that the place is in the desert. The exact location of the place is unknown.

In Ri 9.21  EU Beer is named as the place to which Abimelech's little brother Jotam fled after he had killed his 70 other brothers (see Gideon ). Here, too, the location of the place is not known for certain, but it is possibly the modern Al-Bireh .

literature

  • RJ Way: Beer. In: Helmut Burkhardt, Fritz Grünzweig et al .: Das Große Bibellexikon. R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 1987, p. 171
  • Paul J. Achtemeier: Harper's Bible Dictionary. Harper & Row, San Francisco 1985, p. 100 f.