Genesis 26:21 - Exposition

And they digged another well (Isaac having yielded up the first), and strove for that also :—"The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water" ( Proverbs 17:14 ) and he called the name of it Sitnah —"Contention" (from שָׂטָן , to lie in wait as an adversary; whence Satan); probably in Wady-es-Shutein , near Rehoboth ( vide infra ).