Shebah: i.e. an oath therefore: Gen 21:31 Beersheba: i.e. the well of the oath, Gen 26:28, 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. Reciprocal: Gen 21:14 - Beersheba Gen 21:33 - called Jos 4:9 - and they are there Jos 15:28 - Beersheba Neh 11:27 - General