Skapto describes digging into or around the ground, whether for cultivation, building, or labor.

The attested uses describe digging as a physical action: around a plant, down for a house foundation, and as work a manager says he cannot do.

1. Physical digging in cultivation, construction, or labor · dominant

   In Luke 13:8, the first-person aorist active subjunctive occurs in the request to leave a plant until the speaker acts around it; the APB renders the clause “until I dig around it and throw manure.” In Luke 6:48, the aorist active indicative describes the man building a house who dug deeply before laying a foundation, while Luke 16:3 uses the present active infinitive for the labor the manager says he is not strong enough to undertake.

   Luke 13:8Luke 6:48Luke 16:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “dig around it” in Luke 13:8, “dug and went deep” in Luke 6:48, and “to dig” in Luke 16:3. These renderings present physical digging in differing clauses.