Bᵉʼêr-Shevaʻ — Beersheva — “Well of seven” / “well of the oath”; major site in Patriarchal narratives

Genesis 21:14 — “Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away. And she wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.”

Genesis 21:31 — “Hence that place was called Beer-sheba, for there the two of them swore an oath.”

Genesis 21:32 — “When they had concluded the pact at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, chief of his troops, departed and returned to the land of the Philistines.”

Genesis 21:33 — “[Abraham] planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and invoked there the name of the ETERNAL, the Everlasting God.”

Genesis 22:19 — “Abraham then returned to his servants, and they departed together for Beer-sheba; and Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba.”