HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1308
בְּשׂוֹר
be.s.vor — Besor
§ Besor = "cheerful" a stream, torrent-bed, or wadi in extreme south of Judah in Philistia; empties into the Mediterranean Sea
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Besor
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
Cold, a ravine or brook in the extreme south-west of Judah, where 200 of David’s men stayed behind because they were faint, while the other 400 pursued the Amalekites (1 Sam. 30:9, 10, 21). Probably the Wadyes Sheriah, south of Gaza.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.