Shibah
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 shbah, oath and sheba, seven, as a sacrifice of seven lambs was offered. Perhaps the name, however, was already in existence before Abrahams time, and the writer simply gives a more or less plausible explanation of its derivation.
W. F. Boyd.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Shibah
shba (, shibhah, seven; , horkos; Swete reads , Phrear horkou, 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.