Finding all stories involving a well

Paul M
Paul M Member Posts: 636 ✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Hi there

Does anyone know how I can find a list of all stories involving a well in the Bible?  I've tried Place:well but that doesn't work.  I've also tried Place:"Jacob's well" - however that produces a single result from John 4, it would seem natural that there are a few more references that this.  Am I doing something wrong ?

thanks


Paul

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  • Christian Alexander
    Christian Alexander Member Posts: 3,008 ✭✭

    Do a factbook search for well. Or create a passage list. 

    Key Passages
    Ge 26:15
    (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)
    Ge 26:18–22
    And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them. But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found…
    Ge 29:1–3
    Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east. As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were…
    Pr 5:15–17
    Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well. Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets? Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
    Je 6:7
    As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
    Jn 4:6–15
    Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 

    Try this as well. Robert G. Rayburn II, “Well,” The Lexham Bible Dictionary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton Member, MVP Posts: 35,674 ✭✭✭

    Do a factbook search for well.

    It has a Search at the bottom of the page which I chopped up** and added sense:well  i.e. term:(thing:Well OR Aqueduct OR Artesian OR Cistern OR Wells OR sense:well)  ---> note that the word "well" has several meanings!

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    **  headwords and milestones are useless for a Bible Search and topic:Well duplicated other results.

    Dave
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  • Paul M
    Paul M Member Posts: 636 ✭✭

    Thanks, that produces what I want.  Why would Place:well only produce one result?  There are quite a few times where people meet at a well in the bible!

  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle Member, MVP Posts: 32,448 ✭✭✭

    Why would Place:well only produce one result?

    You need thing:Well