Type: place
A region in the southern part of Canaan.
Hagar, while pregnant and fleeing to Egypt, met an angel of God here and returned.
Genesis 16:13So Hagar called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”Genesis 16:14Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it is between Kadesh and Bered.Genesis 16:15And Hagar bore a son to Abram, and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
Later, it was the region where Isaac primarily resided.
Genesis 24:62Now Isaac had come from the way of Beer-lahai-roi, for he was dwelling in the Negeb.
Genesis 25:11After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son. And Isaac settled by Beer-lahai-roi.