Objects

well

Wells are central in patriarchal narratives as meeting places, including where Jacob meets Rachel and waters Laban's flock.

Category

Objects

First mention

Genesis 21:19

Tags

2

Genesis 21, 24, 26, 29Water source

Scripture references

  • Genesis 21:19

    Then God opened Hagar's eyes and she saw a well...

  • Genesis 21:25

    Abraham then reproached Abimelech about a well...

  • Genesis 21:30

    as evidence that I have dug this well.

  • Genesis 24:11

    he made the camels kneel outside the town near the well.

  • Genesis 26:15

    The Philistines had blocked up all the wells dug by his father's servants...

  • Genesis 26:18

    Isaac reopened the wells dug by the servants of his father Abraham and blocked up by the Philistines after Abraham's death,

  • Genesis 26:20

    So Isaac named the well Esek, because they had disputed with him.

  • Genesis 26:25

    there Isaac's servants sank a well.

  • Genesis 26:33

    So he called the well Sheba, and hence the town is named Beersheba to this day.

  • Genesis 29:2

    he saw a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it; this well was used for watering the flocks.

  • Genesis 29:10

    rolling the stone off the mouth of the well, watered his uncle Laban's sheep.

  • Genesis 37:24

    and catching hold of him, threw him into the well. The well was empty, with no water in it.