Beersheba (Beer`sheba) , a village in the S. of Canaan, and the most southerly, 27 m. from Hebron; associated with Dan, in the N., to denote the limit of the land and what lies between; lies in a pastoral country abounding in wells, and is frequently mentioned in patriarchal history; means “the Well of the Oath.”
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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