Beer-Lahai-Roi

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Beer-Lahai-Roi (‘The well of the Living One that seeth me’). A well between Kadesh and Bered, where the fleeing Hagar was turned back (  Genesis 16:14 ), where Isaac met his bride (  Genesis 24:62 ), and where he dwelt after Abraham’s death (  Genesis 25:11 ). ‘Ain Muweileh , about 50 miles S.W of Beersheba, has been suggested as a not impossible identification. It is a station where there are several wells, on the caravan route from Syria to Egypt.

R. A. S. Macalister.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Beer-lahai-roi ( Bç'Er-La-Hâi'Roy ), Well Of The Living. A fountain in the wilderness, southwest of Beersheba,  Genesis 16:7;  Genesis 16:14;  Genesis 24:62;  Genesis 25:11; perhaps Moilâhhi; not the same as that in  Genesis 21:19.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Wells of him living, and seeing me, on the southwest border of Canaan, where Hagar was visited by an angel,  Genesis 16:14 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Genesis 16:7-14

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. Beer' Lachay' Roi', לִחִי רֹאִי בְּאֵר , signifying, according to the explanation in the text where it first occurs, Well Of [ To ] Life Of Vision [or, of the Living and Seeing God], i.e. survivorship after beholding the theophany; but, according to the natural derivation, well of the cheek-bone [rock] of vision; Sept. in  Genesis 16:14, Φρέαρ Οῦ Ἐνώπιον Εϊ v Δον ; in  Genesis 24:62, Τὸ Φρέαρ Τῆς Ὁράσεως ; Vulg. Puteus Viventis Et Videntis Me ) , a well, or rather a living spring (A. V. "fountain," comp.  Genesis 24:7), between Kadesh and Bered, in the wilderness, "in the way to Shur," and therefore in the "south country" ( Genesis 24:62.), which seems to have been so named by Hagar because God saw her ( רֹאִי ) there ( Genesis 16:14). From the fact of this etymology not being in agreement with the formation of the name (more legitimately, רַאַי לְחַי ), it has been suggested (Gesenius, Thes. p. 175) that the origin of the name is LEHI (See Lehi) (q.v.) ( Judges 15:9;  Judges 15:19), the scene of Samson's adventure, which was not far from this neighborhood. By this well Isaac dwelt both before and after the death of his father ( Genesis 24:62;  Genesis 25:11). In both these passages the name is given in the A. V. as "the well Lahai-roi." Mr. Rowland announces the discovery of the well Lahai-roi At Moyle or Moilahi, a station on the road to Beersheba, ten hours south of Ruheibeh, near which is a hole or cavern bearing the name of Beit Hagar (Williams, Holy City, 1, 465); but this requires confirmation. This well is possibly the same with th at by which the life of Ishmael was preserved on a subsequent occasion ( Genesis 21:19), but which, according to the Moslems, is the well Zem-Zem at Mecca.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bē - ẽr - la - hı̄´roi , bē - ẽr - lā - hı̄ - rō´i ( בּאר לחי ראי , be'ēr laḥai rō'ı̄ , "well of the Living One that seeth me"): "A fountain of water in the wilderness," "the fountain in the way to Shur" ( Genesis 16:7-14 ). It was the scene of Hagar's theophany, and here Isaac dwelt for some time ( Genesis 16:7 f;   Genesis 24:62;  Genesis 25:11 ). The site is in The Negeb between Kadesh and Bered ( Genesis 16:14 ). Rowland identifies the well with the modern ‛Ain Moilâhhi , circa 50 miles South of Beersheba and 12 miles West of ‛Ain Kadis . Cheyne thinks that Hagar's native country, to which she was fleeing and from which she took a wife for Ishmael, was not Egypt ( micrayim ), but a north Arabian district called by the Assyrians Muṣri ( Encyclopedia Biblica ).