Who named Beersheba?
Abraham
Wherefore he [Abraham] called that place Beersheba. Genesis 21:31
Isaac
And he [Isaac] called it Shebah: therefore the name of the
city is Beersheba unto this day. Genesis 26:33
Note from
The New Oxford Annotated Bible for Genesis 26:32-33: "
Shibah, another explantion fo the name of Isaac's shrine
Beer-sheba (see 21.22-34n.).
