Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Beer?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with El Bira.

First appears in Judges 9:21 · 1 books · 1 chapters

Overview

Well. (1. ) A place where a well was dug by the direction of Moses, at the forty-fourth station of the Hebrews in their wanderings (Num. 21:16-18) in the wilderness of Moab. (See WELL. ). Modern identification: El Bira.

Beer is represented in the local geography layer as El Bira. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Judges 9:21 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.

Nearby biblical places

Galilee

About 17 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Nazareth

About 22 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Canaan

About 24 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Samaria

About 47 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Jericho

About 82 km away in the local coordinate layer.

Where it sits on the map

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How to get to Beer today

Travel to Beer, the modern-day El Bira.

Beer is commonly identified with El Bira, and the map on this page is meant to orient you to that present-day site before you continue into routing or street-level navigation.

Beer is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.

This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.

Modern orientation

El Bira

32.608°N · 35.504°E

Key passages

Appears in

Judges

1 chapter · 1 verse mention