LAHAI-ROI, the well (+WI 41:6 ; 15plap bcfrnow EISov, and 7-6 q5plap 6pda-ea's; puteum nomine viventis d and putenne viventis el videnth me). The incident which gave this well its name is one of those graphic episodes in the history of the early patriarchs which serve at once to throw a clear light on their lives and characters, and to illustrate the genius of them language, and the pecu liarities of their modes of thought and expression. Hagar fled trotn her imperious mistress, and took refuge in the desert. She sat down, as all travel lers are wont to do, by a well. The LORD ap peared to her there, and foretold the birth and future history of her son. She knew that she had seen Jehovah, and yet she still lived ; though it was then the general belief that no man could see God and live. With joy and fear struggling in her heart she called the Lord, who spoke to her, The God of seeing' OK) for she said, Do even still see (i.e., do I live, 4TVN1) after seeing' (1.41 4111N;
e., after seeing' God ; or after my vision' of God). And then, as an expression of profound gratitude, she named the well Beer-Lahaz-roi, that is, The well of seeing (God) and living,' or the well where God was seen by one who still lives.' The Hebrew will not bear the interpretation ,given to it by Clarke, A well to the Living One who seeth me ;' and by such a rendering, besides, we miss the spirit and point of the passage. Equally untenable is the conjecture of Gesenius in Ills The saurus (see Kalisch, Clarke, and Murphy, ad loc.) The well was situated 'between Kadesh and Bered,' in the way to Shur.' The exact site is not known, but it was probably south of Kadesb, in or near the great valley of Arabah, and not far distant from the borders of Edom. It afterwards became a favourite camping-g-round. of Isaac (Gen. xxiv. 62 ; xxv. t)—J. L. P.