maq.qe.vet denotes the excavation or hollow from which people are pictured as having been dug.

maq.qe.vet is used for the excavated hollow paired with a rock from which the hearers are said to have been hewn in Isaiah 51:1.

1. Excavated hollow in an origin image · dominant

   In Isaiah 51:1, the feminine singular construct form occurs in the phrase about the pit from which the hearers were dug, paired with the rock from which they were hewn. The APB renders the clause "the hole of the pit from which you were dug."

   Isaiah 51:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Isaiah 51:1, the APB presents the term within "the hole of the pit from which you were dug." The precise division between "hole" and the surrounding pit phrase cannot be confirmed from the English alone.