# H2864 חָתַר

חָתַר (châthar), Strong’s H2864: to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars KJV: dig (through), row.. Occurs 8 times.

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*châthar* — to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars

KJV: dig (through), row.

Occurs 8 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- חָתַר vb. dig, row

## Where it occurs
- [Ezekiel 8:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/8?v=8) — Then he said to me, “Son of man, dig now in the wall.” When I had dug in the wall, I saw a door.
- [Ezekiel 12:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/12?v=5) — Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry your baggage out that way.
- [Ezekiel 12:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/12?v=7) — I did so as I was commanded. I brought out my baggage by day, as baggage for moving, and in the evening I dug through…
- [Ezekiel 12:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/12?v=12) — “‘The prince who is among them will bear his baggage on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig…
- [Amos 9:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/9?v=2) — Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them…
- [Jonah 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/1?v=13) — Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land; but they could not, for the sea grew more and more stormy…
- [Job 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/job/24?v=16) — In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.