Wells
36 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
38 sections
- (A Fruitful Bough By) of Joseph's Numerous Posterity
- (Drinking from One's Own) of Enjoyment of Domestic
- (Without Water) Hypocrites
- At Haran
- Beer (East of Jordan)
- Beerlahairoi
- Beer-Sheba
- Bethlehem
- Canaan Abounded With
- Elim
- Esek
- First Mention of
- Flgurative of Salvation
- Flgurative without Water
- Frequented by Travellers
- Frequented by Women Who Came to Draw Water
- Frequently Made in the Courts of Houses
- Frequently Made in the Desert
- Frequently Made: Near Encampments
- Frequently Made: Outside Cities
- had Troughs Placed Near for Watering Cattle
- Hagar
- Haran
- Jacob
- Many Supplied from Lebanon
- Names often Given To
- Often Afforded No Water
- Often Covered to Prevent Their Being Filled with Sand
- Often Deep and Difficult to Draw From
- Rehoboth
- Sitnah
- Strangers not to Draw From, Without Permission
- Supplied by Springs
- Supplied by the Rain
- Surrounded by Trees
- The Occasion of Feuds: Between Abraham and Abimelech
- The Occasion of Feuds: Between Isaac and Abimelech
- Water of, Frequently Sold
(A Fruitful Bough By) of Joseph's Numerous Posterity
- Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
(Drinking from One's Own) of Enjoyment of Domestic
- Proverbs 5:15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
(Without Water) Hypocrites
- 2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
At Haran
- Genesis 24:16 Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
Beer (East of Jordan)
- Numbers 21:16–18 From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.” …
Beerlahairoi
- Genesis 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
Beer-Sheba
- Genesis 21:30–31 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.” …
Bethlehem
- 2 Samuel 23:15 David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
- 1 Chronicles 11:17–18 David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” …
Canaan Abounded With
- Deuteronomy 6:11 with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant— and when you eat and are satisfied,
Elim
- Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
Esek
- Genesis 26:20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
First Mention of
- Genesis 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
Flgurative of Salvation
- Isaiah 12:3 With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
- John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
Flgurative without Water
- Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
- 2 Peter 2:17 These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
Frequented by Travellers
- Genesis 24:11 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:13 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
- Genesis 24:42 So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
- John 4:6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Frequented by Women Who Came to Draw Water
- Genesis 24:13–14 Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water. …
- John 4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
Frequently Made in the Courts of Houses
- 2 Samuel 17:18 But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.
Frequently Made in the Desert
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
Frequently Made: Near Encampments
- Genesis 21:30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
- Genesis 26:18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
Frequently Made: Outside Cities
- Genesis 24:11 As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.
- John 4:6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- John 4:8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
had Troughs Placed Near for Watering Cattle
- Genesis 24:19–20 After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.” …
- Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Hagar
- Genesis 21:19 Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
Haran
- Genesis 29:3–4 When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well. …
Jacob
- John 4:6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Many Supplied from Lebanon
- Song of Solomon 4:15 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.
Names often Given To
- Genesis 16:14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
- Genesis 21:31 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
Often Afforded No Water
- Jeremiah 14:3 The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
- Zechariah 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Often Covered to Prevent Their Being Filled with Sand
- Genesis 29:2–3 He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well. …
Often Deep and Difficult to Draw From
- John 4:11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
Rehoboth
- Genesis 26:22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Sitnah
- Genesis 26:21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Strangers not to Draw From, Without Permission
- Numbers 20:17 Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”
Supplied by Springs
- Proverbs 16:22 Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
Supplied by the Rain
- Psalm 84:6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a place of springs; even the autumn rain covers it with pools.
Surrounded by Trees
- Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.
- Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.
The Occasion of Feuds: Between Abraham and Abimelech
- Genesis 21:25–30 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized, …
The Occasion of Feuds: Between Isaac and Abimelech
- Genesis 26:15–22 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham. …
- Genesis 26:32–33 On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him. …
Water of, Frequently Sold
- Numbers 20:19 “We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.