Genesis 26:33

Overview - Genesis 26
1	Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord instructs and blesses him.
7	He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12	He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity.
18	He digs Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth.
23	God appears to him at Beer-sheba, and blesses him; and Abimelech makes a covenant with him.
34	Esau's wives.

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Genesis 26:33 (King James Version)
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

Shebah: i.e., an oath. therefore.; 21:31
Beer-sheba: i.e., the well of the oath.; 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.