Beeri

Beeri in the Topics

Illustrious, or the well-man. (1.) The father of Judith, one of the wives of Esau (Gen 26:34), the same as Adah (Gen 36:2). (2.) The father of the prophet Hosea (Hos 1:1).

Named in the Bible

2 verses

  • Genesis 26:34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
  • Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.