Strong's #2658: chaphar (pronounced khaw-far')

a primitive root; properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore:--dig, paw, search out, seek.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châphar

1) to dig, search for

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to dig

1a2) to search, search out, explore

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Genesis 21:30: "that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well."
Genesis 26:15: "which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines"
Genesis 26:18: "And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged"
Genesis 26:18: "the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father;"
Genesis 26:19: "And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing"
Genesis 26:21: " And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name"
Genesis 26:22: "And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove"
Genesis 26:32: "him concerning the well which they had digged, unto him, We have found water."
Exodus 7:24: "And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for"
Numbers 21:18: "The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves."
Deuteronomy 1:22: "We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring"
Deuteronomy 23:13: "and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover"
Joshua 2:2: "tonight of the children of Israel to search out the country."
Joshua 2:3: "into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country."
Job 3:21: "Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;"
Job 11:18: "because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety."
Job 39:21: " He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men."
Job 39:29: "From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off."
Psalms 7:15: "He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made."
Psalms 35:7: "for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul."
Ecclesiastes 10:8: " He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh a hedge, a serpent shall bite"
Jeremiah 13:7: "Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place"