Difference between revisions of "Beer"

<p> '''1.''' A "dug well", whereas EN or AIN is a "fountain" or "spring". Israel's last halting place was so-called, from the well dug there, beyond the Arnon, by the princes and nobles. A poetical fragment celebrates the fact (&nbsp;Numbers 21:16-18): "Spring up, [[O]] well; sing ye unto it. The princes digged the well; the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves". What a contrast was this Beer, digged amidst the people's joyous songs in honor of their princes, to the miraculous smiting of the rock amidst their murmuring against God and their leaders (&nbsp;Numbers 20:2). </p> <p> Perhaps the BEER-ELIM, "well of the princes," of &nbsp;Isaiah 15:8, on the border of [[Moab]] southwards. The howling (yillelathah; Beer-elim is chosen as similar in sound) shall reach even that remote point. Tradition made this the last appearance of the water that "followed" the people before their entrance into Canaan; compare &nbsp;1 Corinthians 10:4. </p> <p> '''2.''' A place whither Jotham, Gideon's son, fled from [[Abimelech]] (&nbsp;Judges 9:21). </p>

<li> A town in the tribe of Judah to which Jotham fled for fear of Abimelech (&nbsp; Judges 9:21 ). Some have identified this place with Beeroth. <div> <p> '''Copyright Statement''' These dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> '''Bibliography Information''' Easton, Matthew George. Entry for 'Beer'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/b/beer.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li>

<p> (Heb. Beer', בְּאֵר, ''A Well'' )'','' a local proper name, denoting, whether by itself or in composition, BEER-, the presence of an ''Artificial'' well of water. (See [[Well]]). It was thus distinguished from the frequent prefix (See [[En]])- (q.v.), which: designated a [[Natural]] spring. There were two places known by this name simply. See the compounds in their alphabetical order. </p> <p> '''1.''' (With the art., הִבְּאֵר; Sept. ὁ φρέαρ ''.'' ) A place in the desert, on the confines of Moab, where the [[Hebrew]] princes, by the direction of Moses, dug a well with their staves, being the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings from Egypt to [[Canaan]] (&nbsp;Numbers 21:16-18). It seems to have been situated in the south part of the plain [[Ard]] Ramadan, not very far north-east of Dibon. (See [[Exode]]). The "wilderness" (מִדְבָּר ), which is named as their next starting-point in the last clause of &nbsp;Numbers 21:18, may be that before spoken of in 13, or it may be a copyist's mistake for מִבְּאֵר . So the Sept., who read καὶ ἀπὸ φρέατος — and from the well, i.e. "from Beer." Probably the same place is called more fully Beer-elim in &nbsp;Isaiah 15:8. (See Ortlob, Defonte baculis fosso, Lpz. 1718.) </p> <p> According to the tradition of the Targumists— a tradition in part adopted by the apostle Paul (&nbsp;1 Corinthians 10:4), this was one of the appearances, the last before the entrance into the [[Holy]] Land, of the water which had "followed" the people, from its first arrival at Rephidim, through their wanderings. The water, so the tradition appears to have run, was granted for the sake of Miriam, her merit being that, at the peril of her life, she had watched the ark in which lay the infant Moses. It followed the march over mountains and into valleys, encircling the entire camp, and furnishing water to every man at his own tent door. This it did till her death (&nbsp;Numbers 20:1), at which time it disappeared for a season, apparently rendering a special act necessary on each future, occasion for its evocation. The striking of the rock at [[Kadesh]] (&nbsp;Numbers 20:10) was the first of these; the digging of the well at Beer by the staves of the princes, the second. Miriam's well at last found a home in a gulf or recess in the sea of Galilee, where at certain seasons its water flowed, and was resorted to for healing purposes (Targums of Onkelos and Pseudo-Jon., &nbsp;Numbers 20:1; &nbsp;Numbers 21:18, and also the quotations in Lightfoot on &nbsp;John 5:4). — Smith, s.v. </p> <p> '''2.''' (Sept. Vat. Βατνπ; the Alex. entirely alters the passage — καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἐν ὁδῷ καὶ ἔφυγεν εἰς ῾Ραρά; Vulg. ''In Bera.'' ) A town in the tribe of Judah, to which Jotham fled for fear of Abimelech (&nbsp;Judges 9:21). Eusebius and Jerome (Onomast. s.v. Βηρά, Bera) place Beer in the great plain eight Roman miles north of Eleutheropolis; perhaps the well near Deir Dubban. By many this place is identified with BEEROTH (See [[Beeroth]]) (q.v.). </p>

<p> '''''bē´ẽr''''' ( בּאר , <i> '''''be'ēr''''' </i> ; φρέαρ , <i> '''''phréar''''' </i> ; Latin <i> puteus </i> = "well"): </p> <p> (1) A station on the march of the Israelites to the North of the Arnon (&nbsp;Numbers 21:16 ). Here it was that they sang round the well this song: </p> <p> 'Spring up O well; greet it with song, </p> <p> Well, that the princes have dug, </p> <p> The nobles of the people have bored, </p> <p> With the scepter - with their staves' (&nbsp;Numbers 21:16 ). </p> <p> The place is not identified. </p> <p> (2) The town to which Jotham fled from his brother Abimelech after declaring his parable from Mt. [[Gerizim]] (&nbsp;Judges 9:21 ). This may be identical with Beeroth . </p>