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(קוּר, kÌ£uÌ„r, “to digâ€, חתר, hÌ£aÌ„thar; διοÏÏ…Ìσσω, dioruÌssoÌ„, “to dig throughâ€): “I have digged (dug) and drunk strange waters†(). In his campaigns on foreign soil, where the enemy had stopped up the watersprings, Sennacherib would at once dig fresh wells for his armies. “They dig through houses†(; , margin). Walls of eastern houses are often made of mud or clay, and frequently have no windows; and as the threshold of a Syrian house is sacred, the thief breaks in through the wall (see Trumbull, The Threshold Covenant).