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Hagar and Ishmael

Genesis 16:14

In 11 translations

BSB
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.Beer-lahai-roi means well of the Living One who sees me.
KJV
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.Beer-lahai-roi: that is, The well of him that liveth and seeth me
WEB
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.Beer Lahai Roi means “well of the one who lives and sees me”.
ASV
Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
LSV
Therefore has one called the well, “The well of the Living One, my beholder”; behold, between Kadesh and Bered.
YLT
therefore hath one called the well, 'The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.
DBY
Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
DRC
Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Barad.
GNV
Wherefore the well was called, Beerlahai-roi. lo, it is betweene Kadesh and Bered.
JPS
Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
LXXE
Therefore she called the well, The well of him whom I have openly seen; behold it is between Cades and Barad.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עַל־כֵּן֙ קָרָ֣א לַבְּאֵ֔ר בְּאֵ֥ר לַחַ֖י רֹאִ֑י הִנֵּ֥ה בֵין־קָדֵ֖שׁ וּבֵ֥ין בָּֽרֶד׃
LXX-Br
Ἕνεκεν τούτου ἐκάλεσε τὸ φρέαρ, φρέαρ οὗ ἐνώπιον εἶδον· ἰδοὺ ἀνὰ μέσον Κάδης καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Βαράδ.

Who and where

📍 Bered📍 Kadesh◆ Birth of Ishmael

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 25:11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
  • Genesis 24:62Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.
  • Genesis 21:31So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
  • Numbers 13:26and they went back to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation of Israel in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for the whole congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
  • Genesis 14:7Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

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