Dig - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

DIG

(qur, "to dig", chathar; diorusso, "to dig through"):

"I have digged (dug) and drunk strange waters" (2 Kings 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; Matthew 6:19,20 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).

M. O. Evans

Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'DIG'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". 1915.