in Ancient Geography, a town in the tribe of Simeon (Joshua); the south boundary not only of its own tribe but of the whole land of Israel, as appears from the common expression "from Dan to Beer-sabe:" in our translation it is Beerheba. It was the residence of the patriarchs; as first of Abraham, from whom it took its name, and of Isaac. It signifies the well or fountain of the oath; dug by Abraham, and claimed as his property by covenant and the religion of an oath, against the insults of the Philistines. Eusebius and Jerome say, that there was a citadel and large village of that name in their time. It was called Beerheba of Judah in 1 Kings xix. 3. not to distinguish it from the Beerheba of Galilee, which probably did not then exist, but to ascertain the limits of the kingdom of Judah. In the lower age called Colfrum Verfabint.