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.<\/p>\n
W. F. Boyd.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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). … Continue reading “Shibah”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}