BERED bĭr’ ĕd (בָּֽרֶד). 1. An unknown place in the Negeb, a little beyond Beer-lahai-roi, mentioned in the story of the angel of the Lord appearing to Hagar (Gen 16:14).

2. A son of Ephraim (1 Chron 7:20), called Becher in Numbers 26:35.

BERED bĭr’ əd (בָּֽרֶד, meaning not certain). A place in the Negeb on the way to Shur, mentioned with Kadesh (Gen 16:14) where Hagar stopped with her son Ishmael when they were met by the angel of the Lord at the well Beerlahai-roi. George Adam Smith (HGHL, p. 192, n. 10) notes that the Targum Ps. Jonathan has Halusa for Bered, which is Khirbet Khalasah, thirteen m. S of Beersheba. This seems to be the best estimate to date of the location of this site on the road to Egypt used by Abraham (Gen 13:1) and Jacob’s wagons as they went to Egypt (46:1, 5f.) as well as this fleeing Egyp. slave girl.