חָתַר châthar — to force a passage, as by burglary
Translated in the KJV as dig, row.
a primitive root; to force a passage, as by burglary; figuratively, with oars.
châthar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 2Imperative 2Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.
Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›