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(Heb. id. ëֶּøֶã , hail, in pause Ba'red, áּ øֶã , Gen_16:14; Sept. always ÂáñÜä ), the name of a place and of a man.
1. A town in the south of Palestine, between which and Kadesh lay the well Lahai-roi (Gen_16:14; comp. Gen_16:7). The name is variously given in the ancient versions: Syriac, Gadar [? — Gerar]; Arab. Iared, probably a mere corruption of the Hebrew name; Onkelos, Chagra, çִâְøָà (elsewhere employed in the Targums for “Shur”); Ps. — Jonathan, Chalutsa, çֲìåּöָà i.e. the Elusa, ῎Åëïõóá , of Ptolemy and the ecclesiastical writers, now el- Khulasah, on the Hebron road, about 12 miles south of Beersheba (Robinson, 1, 296; Stewart, p. 205; Reland, p. 755). We have the testimony of Jerome (Vita S. Hilarionis) that Elusa was called by its inhabitants Barec, which would be an easy corruption of Bered, êְ being read for ã . Chaluza is the name elsewhere given in the Arabic version for “shur” and for “Gerar.” SEE ELUSA.
2. A son of Shuthelah and grandson of Ephraim (1Ch_7:20); supposed by some to have been identical with Becher in Num_26:35, by a mere change of letters ( áëø for áøã ), but with little probability from the context. B.C. post 1856.