Beer

BEER be'-er (be'er; phrear; Latin puteus = "well"):

(1) A station on the march of the Israelites to the North of the Arnon (Numbers 21:16). Here it was that they sang round the well this song:

- `Spring up O well; greet it with song, Well, that the princes have dug, The nobles of the people have bored, With the scepter--with their staves' (Numbers 21:16).

+ The place is not identified.

(2) The town to which Jotham fled from his brother Abimelech after declaring his parable from Mt. Gerizim (Judges 9:21). This may be identical with \BEEROTH\, which see.

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'BEER'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.