Middle East
Israel
Southern District

Tel Be’er Sheva

Tel Sheva or Tel Be'er Sheva, also known as Tell es-Seba, is an archaeological site in the of , believed to be the site of the ancient biblical town of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Israel
  • Also known as: “Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba”, “Tel Be’er Sheva‘”, “Tel Be’er Sheva`”, and “Tel Beersheba”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Soroka hospital and Beer Sheva North - University.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
Soroka University Medical Center, a part of the Group, is the general hospital of , , it serves as the central hospital of the region and provides medical services to approximately one million residents of the South, from and to . is situated 4 km west of Tel Be’er Sheva.

Railway station
Photo: Eden1996, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Be'er Sheva–North railway station is an Israel Railways station in . It is a stop on the intercity line from and the terminus of the Beersheba– branch line. is situated 3½ km northwest of Tel Be’er Sheva.

Museum
Photo: נרשמתי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 2½ km north of Tel Be’er Sheva.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tel Sheva and Omer.

Town
Photo: Idobi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Tel as-Sabi is a Bedouin town in the of , bordering the city of . In 2023 it had a population of 24,195.

Village
Photo: BASWIM, CC BY 3.0.
is an affluent town in the of , bordering . It is located on Highway 60, between Beersheba and the Shoket Junction. In 2023 it had a population of 8,226. is situated 2½ km north of Tel Be’er Sheva.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.
is a moshav in southern . Located in the northern desert around 8 km south-east of , it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. is situated 4½ km southeast of Tel Be’er Sheva.

Tel Be’er Sheva

Latitude
31.24554° or 31° 14′ 44″ north
Longitude
34.84089° or 34° 50′ 27″ east
Elevation
297 metres (974 feet)
Open location code
8G3P6RWR+69
Open­Street­Map ID
way 96320718
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
293389
Wiki­data ID
Q534596
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Tel Be’er Sheva” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تل أبو محفوظ”
  • Arabic: “تل ابو محفوظ”
  • Arabic: “تل السبع”
  • Arabic: “تل بئر السبع”
  • Bulgarian: “Вирсавия”
  • Catalan: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • Cebuano: “Tel Be’ér Sheva‘”
  • Chinese: “特尔别是巴”
  • Chinese: “特爾別是巴”
  • Croatian: “Tel Beer Ševa”
  • Czech: “Biblické tely – Megido, Chacor, Tel Be’er Ševa”
  • Czech: “Tel Be’er Ševa”
  • Dutch: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل بئر السبع”
  • Finnish: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • French: “Tel Beer Sheva”
  • German: “Tel Be’er Scheva”
  • German: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • German: “Tell Be’er Scheva”
  • Hebrew: “Tel Be’ér Sheva‘”
  • Hebrew: “תל באר שבע”
  • Italian: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • Japanese: “Tel Beer Sheba”
  • Japanese: “テル・ベエル・シェバ”
  • Mongolian: “Тел Беер Шеба”
  • Persian: “تل شیوا”
  • Polish: “Beer Szewa”
  • Polish: “Tel Beer Szewa”
  • Portuguese: “Tel Berseba”
  • Russian: “Тель Беэр-Шева”
  • Russian: “Тель-Беэр-Шева”
  • Slovak: “Tel Beer Ševa”
  • Spanish: “Tel Be’er Sheva”
  • Spanish: “Tel Sheva”
  • Spanish: “Tell Be’er Sheva”
  • Spanish: “Tell es-Seba”
  • Turkish: “Tel Beer Sheba”
  • Ukrainian: “Тель-Беер-Шева”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tel Be’er Sheva”. Photo: Gugganij, CC BY-SA 3.0.