Cc: B-Hebrew Forum <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] The meaning of Beersheba
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:09:46 -0500
In my humble opinion BeerSheba באר שבע is BeerSepa באר
שפע, 'the well of abundance, the well of effluence'. THe root
שבע is a variant of the roots שפע and שוע, for the effluence
of the pleading sound.