chatar · dig through, break in

What it means

chatar (חָתַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dig through, break in”.

To dig through, to force a way in, like a thief breaking through a wall; also to row hard.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To make an opening by breaking through a wall or the ground.
2. Row hard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dig ×5
• I dug ×2
• rowed hard ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×1
• Ezekiel×5
• Amos×1
• Jonah×1

• Job 24:16

  They dig through houses in the dark; by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

• Ezekiel 8:8

  And he said to me, “Son of man, dig through the wall.” And I dug through the wall, and look, an entrance.

• Ezekiel 12:5

  Before their eyes dig for yourself through the wall, and bring it out through it.

• Ezekiel 12:7

  And I did so, as I was commanded; my baggage I brought out as baggage for exile by day, and in the evening I dug for myself through the wall with my hand; in the darkness I brought it out; on my shoulder I carried it before their eyes.

• Ezekiel 12:12

  And the chief who is in their midst will carry it on his shoulder in the darkness, and he will go out; they will dig through the wall to bring him out through it; his face he will cover, so that he will not see with his eye the land.

• Amos 9:2

  If they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them; and if they climb up to the heavens, from there I will bring them down.

• Jonah 1:13

  Then the men rowed hard to get back to the dry land, but they could not, for the sea was growing more and more stormy against them.

And 1 more times.