To dig
נָקַרStrong’s H5365naqar (na-qar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Naqar is the Hebrew word usually translated “put out”, “gouged out” and “gouging out”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.”
Meaning
- To bore, pick, dig, pick out(Qal) to bore, pick, dig · (Piel) to bore out · (Pual) to be dug out
How it's translated
- will you put out 1
- and they gouged out 1
- by gouging out 1
- he has pierced 1
- they will pluck out it 1
- you were dug out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 16:21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- 1 Samuel 11:2And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
- Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- Proverbs 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
- Isaiah 51:1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Hebrew dictionary
נָקַר naqar · to dig
1) to bore, pick, dig, pick out 1a) (Qal) to bore, pick, dig 1b) (Piel) to bore out 1c) (Pual) to be dug out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dig” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIG, verb transitive
preterit tense Digger or dug; participle passive Digged or dug. [G.]
- To open and break or turn up the earth with a spade or other sharp instrument.
- To excavate; to form an opening in the earth by digging and removing the loose earth; as, to dig a well, a pit or a mine.
- To pierce or open with a snout or by other means, as swine or moles.
- To pierce with a pointed instrument; to thrust in.
All definitions and other forms of “dig”
DIG, verb intransitive
- To work with a spade or other piercing instrument; to do servile work.
- To work in search of; to search.“They dig for it, more than for hid treasures” Job 3:21“Son of man, dig now in the wall” Ezekiel 8:8
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.