* Shebah.  i.e., an oath.  therefore.
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 * Beer-sheba.  i.e., the well of the oath.
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   This may have been the same city which was called Beer-sheba a
   hundred years before this, in the time of Abraham; but as the
   well, from which it had its name originally, was closed up by
   the Philistines, the name of the place might have been
   abolished with the well; when, therefore, Isaac re-opened it,
   he restored the ancient name of the place.