TO DIG — a well (Genesis 26:19, 21, already on these pages), the Nile's bank for water (Exodus 7:24, already on these pages) — and, by extension, to dig OUT a country: to spy it. Deuteronomy 1:22 (already on these pages) has Israel choose this verb for the twelve spies, let them dig out the land for us; Joshua 2:2 and 2:3 put it in the mouths of the king of Jericho's informers and of the king himself. The infinitive with its object, lachpor et, stands in two verses of the Hebrew Bible, both in Joshua 2. ⚠ The shelf translates the sense (‘search out’, ‘spy out’); this translation keeps the picture, ‘dig out’, on both pages, so the two uses can be heard against each other. A homonymous root, chafer, means to be ashamed (Psalm 35:4), and shares the consonants without the sense. → first discussed at Joshua 2:2