Jonah 1:13

Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to bring it to the land,

but they could not,.... Or, "they digged" (l); that is, the waters of the sea with their oars; not by casting anchor, as Abendana; they used…

The men rowed hard - , literally “dug.” The word, like our “plowed the main,” describes the great efforts which they made. Amid the violence of the storm, they had furled their sails. These were worse…

The men rowed hard - Were very unwilling to proceed to this extremity, and thought they would risk every thing rather than cast this disobedient prophet into the great deep.

It is plain that Jonah is the man for whose sake this evil is upon them, but the discovery of him to be so was not sufficient to answer the demands of this tempest; they had found him out, but…

rowed hard Lit., digged. The word is used for digging or breaking through a wall, Job 24:16; Eze 12:5; Eze 12:7. The figurative use of it does not occur again in the O.T., where, as has been before…