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Dig
King James Dictionary
or 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.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Dig'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/dig.html.
