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bē´ẽr (בּ×ר, be'eÌ„r; φÏεÌαÏ, phreÌar; Latin puteus = “wellâ€):
(1) A station on the march of the Israelites to the North of the Arnon (). Here it was that they sang round the well this song:
'Spring up O well; greet it with song,
Well, that the princes have dug,
The nobles of the people have bored,
With the scepter - with their staves' ().
The place is not identified.
(2) The town to which Jotham fled from his brother Abimelech after declaring his parable from Mt. Gerizim (). This may be identical with BEEROTH.