Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.
Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.
So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba: because there they swore both of them.
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
He called that place Beer-sheba - באר שבע Beer-shaba, literally, the well of swearing or of the oath, because they both sware there - mutually confirmed the covenant.
21:31 Beer - sheba - That is, the well of the oath, in remembrance of the covenant that they sware to, that they might be ever mindful of it.