Hebrew word · H1276

בֵּרִים

haberim

Bichrite

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

People descended from Beri, a man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.20.1;

father of: Sheba (H7652A)

Group of bikh.ri (בִּכְרִי "Bichri" H1075)

§ Berites = "my well: of the well"

a tribe who are named with Abel and Beth-maachah, and who were therefore doubtless situated in the north of Palestine

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Similar words

Where it appears

2 Samuel · 1

  1. 2 Samuel 20:14 הַבֵּרִ֑ים ס the Berites

    Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.

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