Fausset Bible Dictionary: Beer-La-Hai-Roi

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Fausset Bible Dictionary: Beer-La-Hai-Roi


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("the well of Him that liveth and seeth".) Named by Hagar, because God looked after her with loving providence even in the wilderness (; ; compare ; Psalm 139). Between Kadesh and Bered, in the S. country. Here Isaac lived before and after his father's death (; ). Identified with a well at Moilahi, a station on the road to Beersheba; near it is the cavern Beit-Hagar. Not to be confounded with the well whereby Ishmael was saved, in , subsequently.