חָפַר

“So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water from the river.”

“Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.”

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

“Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.”

“He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.””

“So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.”

“He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.””

“Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.”