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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Esek
A well, not a person. Isaac's herdsmen dug it in the valley of Gerar and the herdsmen of Gerar claimed the water, so he called it contention. Sitnah came next, and then Rehoboth, which nobody fought over.
A well, not a person. Isaac's herdsmen dug it in the valley of Gerar and the herdsmen of Gerar claimed the water, so he called it contention. Sitnah came next, and then Rehoboth, which nobody fought over.
Esek is not a person but a well that Isaac's herdsmen dug in the valley of Gerar; the name means "contention" or "quarrel," because Philistine herdsmen from Gerar disputed Isaac's claim to the water (Genesis 26:20). It was the first of three wells dug during that dispute, the others being Sitnah and the uncontested Rehoboth.
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- Genesis 26:20
