Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2658
חָפַר
cha.phar · “to search”
Used 22 times across 9 books
Definition
1) to dig, search for
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to dig
1a2) to search, search out, explore
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to dig
1a2) to search, search out, explore
Where it appears
Genesis8
Exodus1
Numbers1
Deuteronomy2
Joshua2
Job4
Psalms2
Ecclesiastes1
Jeremiah1
In the text
Genesis 21:30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.Genesis 26:15For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.Genesis 26:18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.Genesis 26:19And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.Genesis 26:21And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.Genesis 26:22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.Genesis 26:32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.Exodus 7:24And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.Numbers 21:18The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:Deuteronomy 1:22And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
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