Genesis 21:31
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Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

called.

Genesis 26:33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

Genesis 26:23 And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

Joshua 15:28 And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,

Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

2 Samuel 17:11 But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.

1 Kings 4:25 And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

Context
The Covenant at Beersheba
30But he said: Thou shalt take seven ewelambs at my hand: that they may be a testimony for me, that I dug this well. 31Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.32And they made a league for the well of oath.…
Cross References
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

Genesis 21:32
And they made a league for the well of oath.

Genesis 26:31
Arising in the morning, they swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away peaceably to their own home.

Genesis 26:33
Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Genesis 46:1
And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

Joshua 15:28
And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,

1 Kings 19:3
Then EIias was afraid, and rising up, he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,

Amos 5:5
But seek not Bethel, and go not into Galgal, neither shall you pass over to Bersabee: for Galgal shall go into captivity, and Bethel shall be unprofitable.

Lexicon
So
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

that
הַה֖וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

place
לַמָּק֥וֹם (lam·mā·qō·wm)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

was called
קָרָ֛א (qā·rā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7121: To call, proclaim, read

Beersheba,
שָׁ֑בַע (šā·ḇa‘)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 884: Beersheba -- 'well of seven', a place in the Negev

because
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it was there
שָׁ֥ם (šām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither

that the two
שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃ (šə·nê·hem)
Number - mdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

of them swore an oath.
נִשְׁבְּע֖וּ (niš·bə·‘ū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7650: To seven oneself, swear


Additional Translations
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.

Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.

Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.

Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

therefore hath he called that place 'Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
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