Genesis 26:33
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And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore.

Genesis 21:31 Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.

Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath.

Genesis 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you...

This may have been the same city which was called Beer-sheba a hundred years before this, in the time of Abraham; but as the well, from which it had its name originally, was closed up by the Philistines, the name of the place might have been abolished with the well; when, therefore, Isaac re-opened it, he restored the ancient name of the place.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Isaac named the well Shebah, which is why the city is named Beer-sheba to this day.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

American King James Version
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

American Standard Version
And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Darby Bible Translation
And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

English Revised Version
And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

World English Bible
He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Young's Literal Translation
and he calleth it Shebah, oath, therefore the name of the city is Beer-Sheba, well of the oath, unto this day.

Genesis 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.


Genesis 21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
Genesis 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

He called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day. —HCSB

So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. —NASB

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beersheba unto this day. —KJV


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Genesis Chapter 26 Verse 33

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