Fish
ὀψάριονStrong’s G3795opsarion
Appears in 5 verses of the New Testament
In short
Opsarion is the Greek word usually translated “fish” and “small fish”. It appears in 5 verses of the New Testament.
“There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?”
Meaning
Usually translated “fish” and “small fish”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- fish 4
- small fish 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 5
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- John 6:11And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
- John 21:9As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
- John 21:10Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
- John 21:13Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
Greek dictionary
ὀψάριον opsarion · fish
ὀψάριον, -ου, τό (dimin. of ὄψον, (1) cooked meat; (2) a relish or dainty, esp. fish, cf. MGr. τὸ ψάρι, fish; in comic poets and late prose writers only) [in LXX: Tob.2:2 א (Β, ὄψον)* ;] fish: Jhn.6:9, 11 21:9-10, 13 † (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fish” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FISH, noun
[Latin piscis.]
- An animal that lives in water. fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders.
- The flesh of fish used as food.
All definitions and other forms of “fish”
FISH, verb intransitive
- To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.
- To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
FISH, verb transitive
- To search by raking or sweeping; as, to fish the jakes for papers.
- In seamanship, to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber.
- To catch; draw out or up; as, to fish up a human body when sunk; to fish an anchor.
FISH, noun
- In ships, a machine to hoist and draw up the flukes of an anchor, towards the top of the bow.
- A long piece of timber, used to strengthen a lower mast or a yard, when sprung or damaged.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.