Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing enclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth. 3. (v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land. 4. (v. t.) To surround with a ditch. 5. (v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side. 6. (v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia DITCH dich: The word is used indiscriminately in the King James Version to represent at least three different ideas: a conduit or trench (2 Kings 3:16); a reservoir or cistern; or simply a pit or hole in the ground. In the Revised Version (British and American) this distinction is observed more carefully. Compare Job 9:31 Psalm 7:15 ("pit"), and Isaiah 22:11 ("reservoir"), the former meaning a pit or any similar place of destruction or corruption; the latter a reservoir or cistern of water. The New Testament usage (Matthew 15:14 the King James Version) corresponds somewhat with the former. See also 2 Kings 3:16 ("trenches").

Multi-Version Concordance Ditch (9 Occurrences) Matthew 12:11 And he said to them, 'What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise 'it'? (YLT) Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. (KJV DBY WBS YLT) Luke 6:39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? (KJV WEY DBY WBS) Job 9:31 yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS) Psalms 7:15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT) Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein. (DBY) Proverbs 23:27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT) Isaiah 22:11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. (KJV WBS YLT) Isaiah 30:14 And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch. (YLT)