Fish
דָּגָהStrong’s H1710dagah (da-gah)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fish”, “fish their” and “fish of”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Meaning
- Fish
How it's translated
- the fish 3
- fish their 3
- fish of 3
- over fish of 2
- and the fish 2
- fish 1
- like fish of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 4
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Exodus 7:18And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
- Exodus 7:21And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 11:5We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
- Deuteronomy 4:18The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- Psalms 105:29He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
Hebrew dictionary
דָּגָה dagah · 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.