Genesis 26:33
Good News Translation
He named the well "Vow." That is how the city of Beersheba got its name.

New Revised Standard Version
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

Contemporary English Version
So Isaac named the well Shibah, and the town is still called Beersheba.

New American Bible
He called it Shibah; hence the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Shebah.

Genesis 21:31 Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

Beer-sheba.

Genesis 26:28 And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

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.

Context
Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech
32And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water. 33Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.
Cross References
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 21:31
Therefore that place was called Bersabee; because there both of them did swear.

Genesis 26:32
And behold, the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

Genesis 26:32
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