Dig
Dig
(, kur, to dig, , hathar; , diorusso, to dig through): I have digged (dug) and drunk strange waters (2Ki 19:24). In his campaigns on foreign soil, where the enemy had stopped up the watersprings, Sennacherib would at once dig fresh wells for his armies. They dig through houses (Job 24:16; Mat 6:19, Mat 6:20 margin). Walls of eastern houses are often made of mud or clay, and frequently have no windows; and as the threshold of a Syrian house is sacred, the thief breaks in through the wall (see Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant).