Fishhook
דּוּגָהStrong’s H1729dugah (du-gah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Dugah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fishing”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.”
Meaning
- Fishing, fishery
How it's translated
- fishing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
דּוּגָה dugah · fishhook
fishing, fishery
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fishing” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FISH'ING, participle present
tense Attempting to catch fish; searching; seeking to draw forth by artifice or indirectly; adding a piece of timber to a mast or spar to strengthen it.
All definitions and other forms of “fishing”
FISH'ING, noun
- The art or practice of catching fish.
- A fishery.
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.