Dictionaries :: Ditch

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Ditch:

dich: The word is used indiscriminately in the King James Version to represent at least three different ideas: a conduit or trench (2Ki 3:16); a reservoir or cistern; or simply a pit or hole in the ground. In the Revised Version (British and American) this distinction is observed more carefully. Compare Job 9:31; Ps 7:15 ("pit"), and Isa 22:11 ("reservoir"), the former meaning a pit or any similar place of destruction or corruption; the latter a reservoir or cistern of water. The New Testament usage (Mt 15:14 the King James Version) corresponds somewhat with the former. See also 2Ki 3:16 ("trenches").

Nave's Topical Bible

Ditch: Figurative

Pro 23:27

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Ditch:

any kind of "deep hole or pit" (probably connected with bathos, "deep"), is translated "ditch" in the AV of Mat 15:14; Luk 6:39, RV, "pit" in each place, as in both versions of Mat 12:11.
See PIT.