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beÌ„-ẽr-la-hı̄´roi, beÌ„-ẽr-laÌ„-hı̄-rō´i (בּ×ר לחי ר××™, be'eÌ„r lahÌ£ai roÌ„'ı̄, “well of the Living One that seeth meâ€): “A fountain of water in the wilderness,†“the fountain in the way to Shur†(-14). It was the scene of Hagar's theophany, and here Isaac dwelt for some time ( f; ; ). The site is in The Negeb between Kadesh and Bered (). Rowland identifies the well with the modern ‛Ain MoilaÌ‚hhi, circa 50 miles South of Beersheba and 12 miles West of ‛Ain Kadis. Cheyne thinks that Hagar's native country, to which she was fleeing and from which she took a wife for Ishmael, was not Egypt (micrayim), but a north Arabian district called by the Assyrians MusÌ£ri (Encyclopedia Biblica).