= hole in the ground that reaches underground water; usually manmade, dug out of the ground, or hewn from rock, but may also be naturally-occurring; used for accessing, collecting and storing water; used by shepherds as a source of water for their animals; regarded as a source of life because of its water; sometimes used as a metaphor for a woman, possibly based on the physical resemblance of the well to the vagina and its connotation as a source of life

= hole in the ground where crude oil seeps to the surface from inside the earth

= naturally occurring depression, hole or pit, usually containing a substance in liquid form; a metaphor for death, based on the physical resemblance of a pit to a grave, on the danger of falling into a pit, or being drowned by water in it, and on the depth of a pit recalling the underworld place of the dead

= location with a well; in Sinai peninsula; the Israelites encamped there on their way from Egypt to Canaan

= town, possibly to be identified with Beeroth; located around ten kilometers north of Jerusalem; territory of Benjamin

= town; located in the Negeb, at the southern border of Judah; used esp. in combination with Dan at the northern border of Israel to refer to all Israel