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Sitnah
Strife, the second of the two wells dug by Isaac, whose servants here contended with the Philistines (Gen 26:21). It has been identified with the modern Shutneh, in the valley of Gerar, to the west of Rehoboth, about 20 miles south of Beersheba.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Genesis 26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
