בְּאֵרוֹת
Beeroth
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Beeroth’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H881 appears — 5 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 2 verses
2 Samuel 1 verse
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, בארות (Bᵉʼêrôwth) means “Beeroth.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Joshua (40% of all occurrences). First canonically at Joshua 9:17, it enters the text early. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H881 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Beeroth 5×
- American Standard Version: Beeroth 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beeroth 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beeroth 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H881 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H881 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H881 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H881 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Beeroth = "wells"
- a Gibeonite city allotted to Benjamin
Word origin
בְאֵרוֹת n.pr.loc. city of Gibeonites
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from באר (bᵉʼêr) (H875) — well.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בְּאֵר
- preced.) well, spring. Gen. R. s. 93; a. fr.—Erub. X, 14 (104ᵃ; 104ᵇ), v. הָקֵר. Taan. 9ᵃ ב׳ בזכות מרים the well in the desert was given to the Israelites for Miriam’s sake; a. fr.—Transf. origin. Y. Sot. II, 18ᵃ (play on בוראיך, Koh. XII, 1) remember בְּאֵירְךָ וכ׳ thy well (whence thou camest), thy pit (grave), thy Creator; Lev. R. s. 18, beg.—Pl. בְּאֵרוֹת. Y. Erub. II, beg. 20ᵃ ב׳ הקר, v. הָקֵר. V. בּוֹר II. e.g. Ecclesiastes 12:1
בֵּיר
- c. ch.
- 1. = h. בְּאֵר. Targ. Gen. XVI, 14; a. e. Ber. 56ᵃ. מיבעי עסקך כי הני מידי דנפל לב׳ Ms. M., thy goods will be sought for like something fallen into a well (i.e. thy business will thrive; diff. vers. in ed. a. Mss., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note). Sabb. 66ᵇ נפל פותא לב׳ Dyer’s Madder, as a remedy, has fallen into the pit (is not practiced). B. Kam. 92ᵇ (prov.) ב׳ דשתית וכ׳ cast no stone into a well out of which thou once didst drink (never despise what once benefitted you).—Ḥull. 106ᵃ בַּת בֵּירְתָא a little gutter fed by a well.—Pl. בֵּירִין, בֵּירֵי. Targ. Gen. XXVI, 15; a. e.
- 2. (= h. בּוֹר) pit, hole. B. Mets. 85ᵃ ב׳ מליא וכ׳ … the cavity (created by the taking out of a radish) stood full of water; [Ms. M. כי ב׳ דמיא like a well; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note].—Pl. as above. Targ. Gen. XIV, 10 (h. text בֶּאֱרוֹת); Gen. R. s. 42.—Snh. 7ᵃ (prov.) שב ב׳ וכ׳ seven pits are open for the righteous man (and he escapes), and one for the evil-doer (into which he falls). Sabb. 110ᵇ
- 3. בֵּירָא pr. n. pl. Bera (prob. ident. with בֵּירַאי 2, a), native place of R. Simlai. Y. Taan. II, 65ᵈ bot. ר׳ ש׳ דיב׳; Y. Meg. I, 72ᶜ bot. דב׳; Koh. R. to III, 14 דברויירא (corr. acc.).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H881 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּ/בְאֵר֔וֹת | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:25 | 2 |
| בְּאֵר֔וֹת | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 4:2 | 1 |
| וּ/בְאֵר֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 9:17 | 1 |
| וּ/בְאֵרֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 18:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H881, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- באר Bᵉʼêr H876 Beer
- בארא Bᵉʼêrâʼ H878 Beera
- באר אלים Bᵉʼêr ʼÊlîym H879 Beer-elim
- בארי Bᵉʼêrîy H882 Beeri
- באר לחי ראי Bᵉʼêr la-Chay Rôʼîy H883 Beer-lahai-roi
- באר שבע Bᵉʼêr Shebaʻ H884 Beer-sheba
- בארת בנייעקן Bᵉʼêrôth Bᵉnêy-Yaʻăqan H885 Beeroth Bene-Jaakan
- בארתי Bᵉʼêrôthîy H886 Beerothite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Beeroth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Wells, one of the four cities of the Hivites which entered by fraud into a league with Joshua. It belonged to Benjamin (Josh. 18:25). It has by some been identified with el-Bireh on the way to Nablus, 10 miles north of Jerusalem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(wells), one of the four cities of the Hivites who deluded Joshua into a treaty of peace with them. (Joshua 9:17) It is now el-Bireh, which stands about 10 miles north of Jerusalem.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
wells; explaining
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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