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# חָתַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2864

**dig** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dig [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2864/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָתַר: vb. dig, row [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2864/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dig, row (NH id., bore (through), so Aramaic חֲתַר 𝔗 (rare))— Pf. ח׳ Jb 24:16, חָתַרְתִּי Ez 12:7; Impf. וָאֶחְתֹּר Ez 8:8 יַחְתְּרוּ Ez 12:12 Am 9:2, וַיַּחְתְּרוּ Jon 1:13; Imv. חֲתָר־ Ez 8:8; 12:5;— dig into houses, c. acc. בָּתִּים Jb 24:16 (of burglary); sq. בְּ into or through a wall Ez 8:8(×2) (Co del. on intern. grounds), 12:5, 7, 12; metaph. sq. בשׁאול Am 9:2 dig into Sheʾôl, i.e. as a refuge. row (as digging into the water) Jon 1:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I dug (2); dig (2); they will dig (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.16/#tree)

חָתַ֥ר בַּחֹ֗שֶׁךְ בָּ֫תִּ֥ים יוֹמָ֥ם חִתְּמוּ־לָ֗מוֹ לֹא־יָ֥דְעוּ אֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* he.digs.into in (the) darkness houses by.day they.seal.up for themselves not they.know light

*JPS 1917:* In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light.

[Ezekiel 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.5/#tree)

לְעֵינֵיהֶ֖ם חֲתָר־לְךָ֣ בַקִּ֑יר וְהוֹצֵאתָ֖ בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to eyes their dig (for yourself in the wall and you.will.bring.out in it

*JPS 1917:* Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2864.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2864/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).