Strong's #2864: chathar (pronounced khaw-thar')

a primitive root; to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars:--dig (through), row.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châthar

1) to dig, row

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to dig (into houses - of burglary)

1a2) to row (in water)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Job 24:16: "In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light."
Ezekiel 8:8: "me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall,"
Ezekiel 8:8: "dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door."
Ezekiel 12:5: " Dig in their sight, and carry out"
Ezekiel 12:7: "as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight,"
Ezekiel 12:12: "his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,"
Amos 9:2: "Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though"
Jonah 1:13: "Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for"