'Dug' in the Bible
He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."
So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,
His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.
Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."
Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.
My father made me swear an oath. He said, "I am about to die. Bury me in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan." Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.'"