Definition

Beer-Lachai-Roi, a place in the Desert

Etymology

from H875 (בְּאֵר) and H2416 (חַי) (with prefix) and H7203 (רֹאֶה); well of a living (One) my Seer;

Where the KJV renders it

• Beer-lahai-roi

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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