HOW TO PRONOUNCE
beersheba
/bɪə(ɹ)ˈʃiːbə/
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What does beersheba mean?
proper noun
- A city in Israel.
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IPA pronunciation
/bɪə(ɹ)ˈʃiːbə/
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/bɛə(ɹ)ˈʃeɪbə/
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See this word in context.
I hear that an English traveller went the same journey and found all barren from Dan to Beersheba.
They were in other lodgings now, in the direction of Beersheba, and not far from the Church of Ceremonies—Saint Silas.
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Hearing of the approach of the enemy, and of their horrible cruelties, the hardy mountaineers rose up as one man from Dan to Beersheba.
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and say “'Tis all barren;” and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
And when men pass this desert, in coming toward Jerusalem, they come to Bersabe (Beersheba), that was wont to be a full fair town and a delectable of Christian men; and yet there be some of their churches.