Genesis 26:33 - The Scriptures 2009

³³ So he called it Shiḇah. Therefore the name of the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa to this day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³³ And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³³ And he named [the well] Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba [well of the oath] to this day. [Gen. 21:31.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³³ And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Common English Bible

³³ He called it Shibah; therefore, the city’s name has been Beer-sheba until today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³³ Therefore, he called it, 'Abundance.' And the name of the city was established as 'Beersheba,' even to the present day.

Genesis 26:33 Cross References

Genesis 21:14

And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.

Genesis 21:31

So he called that place Be’ĕrsheḇa, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Genesis 26:28

But they said, “We have clearly seen that יהוה is with you. And we said, ‘Please, let there be an oath between us, between you and us. And let us make a covenant with you,

Genesis 26:32

And on the same day it came to be that the servants of Yitsḥaq came and informed him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

Nehemiah 11:27

and in Ḥatsar Shu‛al, and in Be’ĕrsheḇa and its villages,

Amos 5:5

but do not seek Bĕyth Ěl, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Be’ĕrsheḇa. For Gilgal shall certainly go into exile, and Bĕyth Ěl become a non-entity.