Strong's Concordance
Original word: חָפַר
Transliteration: chaphar
Definition (short): dug
Definition (full): to pry into, to delve, to explore
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to dig, search for
NASB Translation: 76,500* (1), dig (2), digs (1), dug (11), hollowed (1), look around (1), paws (1), sank (1), search (3), spies (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore -- dig, paw, search out, seek.
References
KJV:
And 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.
NASB:
He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well."
KJV:
For 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.
NASB:
Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.
KJV:
And 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.
NASB:
Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the same names which his father had given them.