Shibah

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SHIBAH.—A name given to a well dug by Isaac (Gen_26:33), which gave its name to the town Beersheba (wh. see). The word means, according to the writer, ‘an oath’; and Beersheba is ‘the well of the oath,’ so named from the swearing of the oath of friendship between Isaac and Abimelech (Gen_26:31). In Gen_21:22-31 we have another account, according to which the well was dug by Abraham and received its name from the oath between Abraham and Abimelech. There is also a play on the word shĕbû‘ah, ‘oath’ and sheba‘, ‘seven,’ as a sacrifice of seven lambs was offered. Perhaps the name, however, was already in existence before Abraham’s time, and the writer simply gives a more or less plausible explanation of its derivation.
W. F. Boyd.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

shı̄?ba (שׁבעה, shibh‛āh, ?seven?; ὅρκος, hórkos; Swete reads Φρέαρ ὅρκου, Phréar hórkou, literally, ?well of oath?; the King James Version Shebah): The name of the original well of Beer-sheba according to Gen_26:33. See BEERSHEBA.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

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