mines

mines

Excavations for the extracting of mineral ores. (Job 28:1-11) has the most detailed description of mining in the Bible, though the subject of interest there is the inaccessibility of wisdom. In (Deut 8:9) the verb used for the mining of copper is the same word used elsewhere for digging a cistern or well. The term for a miner is simply “digger.”

Job 28:1-11

Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found
1“Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place for gold to be refined.2Iron is taken out of the earth,
and copper is smelted ... View more

Deut 8:9

9a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.

HarperCollins Dictionary

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