New Revised Standard Version
Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba; because there both of them swore an oath.

Contemporary English Version
So they called the place Beersheba, because they made a treaty there.

New American Bible
This is why the place is called Beer-sheba; the two of them took an oath there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

called.

Genesis 26:33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:14 So Abraham rose up in the morning, and taking bread and a bottle of water, put it upon her shoulder, and delivered the boy, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Bersabee.

Genesis 26:23 And he went up from that place to Bersabee,

Joshua 15:28 And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,

Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and gathered together as one man, from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:

2 Samuel 17:11 But this seemeth to me to be good counsel: Let all Israel be gathered to thee, from Dan to Bersabee, as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered: and thou shalt be in the midst of them.

1 Kings 4:25 And Juda, and Israel, dwelt without any fear, every one under his vine, and under his fig tree, from Dan to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.