Dig
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. i.) To study ploddingly and laboriously.
(2): ( n.) = Gouge.
(3): ( n.) An amount to be dug.
(4): ( v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
(5): ( v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
(6): ( v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
(7): ( v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
(8): ( v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
(9): ( n.) An act of digging.
(10): ( v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(11): ( n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
(12): ( v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
(13): ( v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(14): ( v. i.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
(15): ( v. i.) To work hard or drudge;
(16): ( n.) A tool for digging.
King James Dictionary [2]
DIG, pret. Digger or dug pp. Digged or dug. G.
1. To open and break or turn up the earth with a spade or other sharp instrument.
Be first to dig the ground.
2. 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. 3. To pierce or open with a snout or by other means, as swine or moles. 4. To pierce with a pointed instrument to thrust in.
Still for the growing liver digged his breast.
To dig down, is to undermine and cause to fall by digging as, to dig down a wall.
To dig out, or to dig from, is to obtain by digging as, to dig coals from a mine to dig out fossils. But the preposition is often omitted, and it is said, the men are digging coals, or digging iron ore. In such phrases, some word is understood They are digging out ore, or digging for coals, or digging ore from the earth.
To dig up, is to obtain something from the earth by opening it, or uncovering the thing with a spade or other instrument, or to force out from the earth by a bar as, to dig up a stone.
DIG,
1. To work with a spade or other piercing instrument to do servile work.
I cannot dig I am ashamed to beg. Luke 16 .
2. To work in search of to search.
They dig for it, more than for hid treasures. Job 3 .
To dig in, is to pierce with a spade or other pointed instrument.
Son of man, dig now in the wall. Ezekiel 8 .
To dig through, to open a passage through to make an opening from one side to the other.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
(קוּר , ḳūr , "to dig", חתר , ḥāthar ; διορύσσω , diorússō , "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 , Matthew 6:20 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 ).
