Hebrew verb · H2864
חָתַר
chatharkhaw-thar'
to dig
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: châthar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2864is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2864
to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars
The King James renders it: dig (through), row.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
chathar is rendered "to dig". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 24:16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
Job 24:16חָתַ֥ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dig2
- they will dig2
- and I dug1
- and they rowed1
- he digs into1
- I dug1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- חֲתָר־2
- וָאֶחְתֹּ֣ר1
- וַיַּחְתְּר֣וּ1
- חָתַ֥ר1
- חָתַֽרְתִּי־1
- יַחְתְּר֖וּ1
- יַחְתְּר֣וּ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural2HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqv2ms
- Hc/Vqw1cs1Hc/Vqw1cs
- Hc/Vqw3mp1Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Job
one use
In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- חָתַ֥רchatarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he digs into
Ezekiel
five uses
“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.
- חֲתָר־chator-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: dig
- וָאֶחְתֹּ֣רvaechtorHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I dug
As they watch, dig through the wall and carry your belongings out through it.
- חֲתָר־chator-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: dig
So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.
- חָתַֽרְתִּי־chatarti-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I dug
And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.
- יַחְתְּר֖וּyachteruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will dig
Amos
one use
Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
- יַחְתְּר֣וּyachteruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will dig
Jonah
one use
Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
- וַיַּחְתְּר֣וּvaiyachteruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they rowed
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.