בְּאֵרִיBᵉʼêrîy
proper name, masculine: my well, the man from Beer?
Pronunciation: be-ay-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H882
Meanings
1. a Hittite, Esau's father-in-law (Genesis 26:34)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 26:34 At the age of forty, Esau married two Hittite wives: Judith, the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon.
- Hosea 1:1 The Lord gave this message to Hosea son of Beeri during the years when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah were kings of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).