Fish
דָּגStrong’s H1709dag
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dag is the Hebrew word usually translated “fish”, “fish of” and “like fish”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”
Meaning
- Fish
- Fish
How it's translated
- the fish 6
- fish of 5
- fish 2
- and fish of 2
- like fish 1
- a fish 1
- to the fish 1
- like fish of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 3
- Job 2
- Jonah 2
- Zephaniah 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 11:22Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
- 1 Kings 4:33And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
- 2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
- Nehemiah 3:3But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
- Nehemiah 12:39And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
- Nehemiah 13:16There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּג dag · Fish (Gate)
fish
דָּג dag · fish
fish
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.