chafar · dig

What it means

chafar (חָפַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dig”.

Also search out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make a well or a pit in the ground.
2. To go through a land to learn it before entering.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dug ×12
• search out ×3
• He paws ×1
• Whoever digs ×1
• hollowed it out ×1
• it searches out ×1
• who dig for it ×1
• you shall dig ×1
• you will search about ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×8
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Job×4
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You are to take the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness for me that I dug this well.”

• Genesis 26:15

  All the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped up and filled with dust.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac again dug the wells of water that they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham; and he called them by names like the names by which his father had called them.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of living water.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now YHWH has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 26:32

  On that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

• Exodus 7:24

  All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink from the water of the Nile.

• Numbers 21:18

  The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

• Deuteronomy 1:22

  Then all of you came near to me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us, that they may search out the land for us and bring back word to us about the way by which we should go up and the cities to which we will come.”

• Deuteronomy 23:13

  And you shall have a peg among your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and turn back and cover your excrement.

• Joshua 2:2

  And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Look, men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel to search out the land.”

• Joshua 2:3

  Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who came to you, who entered your house, for to search out all the land they have come.”

• Job 3:21

  to those who wait for death and it is not there, and who dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

• Job 11:18

  And you will trust, because there is hope; you will search about and lie down in safety.

• Job 39:21

  He paws in the valley and rejoices in strength; he goes out to meet the weapons.

• Job 39:29

  From there it searches out food; from afar its eyes look.

• Psalms 7:15

  He dug a pit and hollowed it out, and fell into the pit that he made.

• Psalms 35:7

  For without cause they hid for me the pit of their net; without cause they dug it for my soul.

• Ecclesiastes 10:8

  Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence, a snake will bite him.

• Jeremiah 13:7

  So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and look, the belt was ruined; it was not good for anything.

And 1 more times.