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Hole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. It may differ from a rent or fissure in being wider. A cell; a den; a cave or cavern in the earth; an excavation in a rock or tree; a pit, etc. Isaiah 11:8 . Ezekiel 8:7 .

2. Nahum 2. Matthew 8:20 .

3. A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument.

4. Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. 2 Kings 12:9 .

5. A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging.

6. An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at.

7. Arm-hole, the arm-pit; the cavity under the shoulder of a person.

8. An opening in a garment for the arm.

Hole [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To go into a hole

Hole [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cut, dig or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

2. To drive into a bag, as in billiards.

Hole [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Whole.

Hole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

2. An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.

3. To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

4. To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

Hole [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To go or get into a hole.

Holeschau Encyclopedia Britannica

HOLESCHAU, Holleschau, or Holesov, chief town of a government district in Moravia, Austria, circle of Hradisch, is situated on the Russawa, 20 miles N.N.E. of Hradisch. It has a large castle in the Italian style (with a fine garden), a beautiful decanal church, and a synagogue. Linen and cloth-weaving are carried on, and there is some trade in honey, wax, hides, and wool. The population in 1869 was 5282, more than a third being Jews.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 12, p. 58
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Holethnic [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.

Holethnos [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

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Exodus 28:32

And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

with an opening at its top in the center. Around the opening shall be a woven collar with an opening like that of a garment, so that it will not tear.

Exodus 39:23

And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

with an opening in the center of the robe like that of a garment, with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.

Deuteronomy 23:13

And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.

1 Samuel 14:11

And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”

2 Kings 12:9

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.

Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

Job 30:6

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Psalms 7:15

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Song of Solomon 5:4

My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

My beloved put his hand to the latch; my heart pounded for him.

Isaiah 2:19

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Men will flee to caves in the rocks and holes in the ground, away from the terror of the LORD and from the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth.

Isaiah 7:19

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.

Isaiah 11:8

And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.

Isaiah 42:22

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”

Isaiah 51:1

Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

Jeremiah 13:4

Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock.

“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”

Jeremiah 16:16

Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.

Jeremiah 48:28

O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole’s mouth.

Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.

Ezekiel 8:7

And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.

Micah 7:17

They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

Nahum 2:12

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.

Haggai 1:6

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”