'Dug' in the Bible
He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand so that this act will serve as my witness that I dug this well.”
The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.
Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
Then Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces and said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
So he built an altar there, called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s slaves also dug a well there.
On that same day Isaac’s slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water!”
All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.
The princes dug the well;the nobles of the people hollowed it outwith a scepter and with their staffs.They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,
houses full of every good thing that you did not fill them with, wells dug that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
I dug wells,and I drank foreign waters.I dried up all the streams of Egyptwith the soles of my feet.
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills and the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many wells. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands.
He dug a pit and hollowed it outbut fell into the hole he had made.
They hid their net for me without cause;they dug a pit for me without cause.
They prepared a net for my steps;I was despondent.They dug a pit ahead of me,but they fell into it!Selah
to give him relief from troubled timesuntil a pit is dug for the wicked.
The arrogant have dug pits for me;they violate Your instruction.
I dug wells and drank water.I dried up all the streams of Egyptwith the soles of my feet.”
Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness,you who seek the Lord:Look to the rock from which you were cut,and to the quarry from which you were dug.
For My people have committed a double evil:They have abandoned Me,the fountain of living water,and dug cisterns for themselves,cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.
So I went to the Euphrates and dug up the underwear and got it from the place where I had hidden it, but it was ruined—of no use at all.
Should good be repaid with evil?Yet they have dug a pit for me.Remember how I stood before Youto speak good on their behalf,to turn Your anger from them.
Let a cry be heard from their houseswhen You suddenly bring raiders against them,for they have dug a pit to capture meand have hidden snares for my feet.
He said to me, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall, and there was a doorway.
So I did just as I was commanded. In the daytime I brought out my bags like an exile’s bags. In the evening I dug through the wall by hand; I took them out in the dark, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.
“Listen to another parable: There was a man, a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
But the man who had received one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money.
Then He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug out a pit for a winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood came, the river crashed against that house and couldn’t shake it, because it was well built.