To dig
קוּרStrong’s H6979qur
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qur is the Hebrew word usually translated “have dug”, “it will destroy” and “breaking down of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to bore, dig, dig for water
- To be cold
- (Pilpel) destroy, break down
How it's translated
- i have dug 2
- and it will destroy 1
- a breaking down of 1
- as keeps cool 1
- it has kept cool 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 19:24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
- Isaiah 22:5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
- Isaiah 37:25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.
- Jeremiah 6:7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
Hebrew dictionary
קוּר qur · to dig
(Qal) to bore, dig, dig for water
קָרַר qarar · to cool
to be cold
קָרַר qarar · to destroy
(Pilpel) destroy, break down
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.