BDB876 [H883]

בְּאֵר לַחַי רֹאִי proper name, of a location (literally well of the living One that seeth me)

**לַחַי perhaps originally I. לְחִי jaw(-bone); on proper name, of a location compared with לחי, γνάφος, see ᵐ5Judg 15:9 WeProl. 344 NesAJSL xiii {1897} 176. Gen 16:14 (where explanation, from story of Hagar) Gen 24:62; Gen 25:11 (all J); perhaps name of ancient shrine or holy place, compare StaZAW ii. 347 & Di Gen 16:14 west of Kadesh, compare Jerome below Barad, LagOnom. 101, 2nd ed. 135, see Rowlands in WilliamsHoly City, 489 TrumbullKadesh-Barnea 64.


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