. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . were kept in the Temple, as wasusual in other ancient countries. Weil (Heb. usually bier, sometimes bor, maydn,mdkor, or ayin ; Gr. phrear and pege, both used inN. T. only of Jacobs well in Jn. iv.; see Aim,Cistern, Fountain, Pit). The special necessity ofa supply of water (Judg. i. 15) in a hot climate hasalways involved among Eastern nations questionsof property of the highest importance, and some-times given rise to serious contention. Thus thewell Beer-sheba was opened, and its possession at-tested with special formality by Abraham (Gen. ,
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . were kept in the Temple, as wasusual in other ancient countries. Weil (Heb. usually bier, sometimes bor, maydn,mdkor, or ayin ; Gr. phrear and pege, both used inN. T. only of Jacobs well in Jn. iv.; see Aim,Cistern, Fountain, Pit). The special necessity ofa supply of water (Judg. i. 15) in a hot climate hasalways involved among Eastern nations questionsof property of the highest importance, and some-times given rise to serious contention. Thus thewell Beer-sheba was opened, and its possession at-tested with special formality by Abraham (Gen. , 31). The Philistines stopped up the wells dugand named by Abraham, an encroachment stoutlyresisted by Isaacs followers (xxvi. 15-33 ; see 2 19; 2 Chr. xxvi. 10). The Koran notices aban-doned wells as signs of desertion. To acquire wellswhich they had not themselves dug, was one of themarks of favor foretold to the Hebrews on their en-trance into Canaan (Deut. vi. 11). To possess oneis noticed as a mark of independence (Prov. v. 15),. and to abstain from the use of wells belonging toothers, a disclaimer of interference with their prop-erty (Num. xx. 17, 19, xxi. 22). Similar rights ofpossession, actual and hereditary, exist among theArabs of the present day. Wells, Burekhardt says,in the interior of the desert are exclusive property, 1182 WEN WHE either of a whole tribe, or of individuals whose an-cestors dug the wells. Wells have become in manycases links in the history and landmarks in thetopography both of Palestine and of the ArabianPeninsula. Wells in Palestine are usually excavatedfrom the solid limestone rock, sometimes with stepsto descend into them (Gen. xxiv. 16). The brimsare furnished with a curb or low wall of stone, inwhich furrows are worn by the ropes used in draw-ing water. This curb, as well as the stone cover,also very usual, agrees with the directions of theLaw, as a protection against accidents (Ex. xxi. 33).On a curb of this sort our Lord sat when He
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