To search
חָפַרStrong’s H2658chaphar (cha-phar)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chaphar is the Hebrew word usually translated “dug”, “had dug” and “spy out”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To dig, search for(Qal)
How it's translated
- and they dug 3
- they had dug 2
- and he dug 2
- to spy out 2
- i dug 1
- people had dug 1
- they dug it 1
- so they may spy out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 7
- Job 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 2
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
חָפַר chaphar · to search
1) to dig, search for 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to dig 1a2) to search, search out, explore
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “search” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SEARCH, verb transitive
serch
- To look over or through for the purpose of finding something; to explore; to examine by inspection; as, to search the house for a book; to search the wood for a thief.“Send though men, that they may search the land of Canaan” Numbers 13:2
- To inquire; to seek for.
- To probe; to seek the knowledge of by feeling with instrument; as to search a wound.
- To examine; to try. Psalms 139:23
All definitions and other forms of “search”
SEARCH, verb intransitive
serch.
- To seek; to look for; to make search
- To make inquiry; to inquire.
SEARCH, noun
serch.
- A seeking or looking for something that is lost, or the place of which us unknown; with for or after; as a search for lost money; a search for mines of gold and silver; a search after happiness or knowledge.
- Inquiry; a seeking.
- Quest; pursuit for finding.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.