Fish
Jump to: TopicalSmith'sISBEEaston'sWebster'sConcordanceThesaurusGreekHebrewLibrarySubtopicsTerms
Thesaurus
Fish (66 Occurrences)
... No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament.
Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the ...
/f/fish.htm - 38k

Fish-pools (1 Occurrence)
Fish-pools. Fishpools, Fish-pools. Fish's . ... The reservoirs near Heshbon (qv)
were probably stocked with fish (2 Samuel 2:13; 4:12; Isaiah 7:3; 22:9, 11). ...
/f/fish-pools.htm - 7k

Fish-gate (3 Occurrences)
Fish-gate. Fishes, Fish-gate. Fishhook . Multi-Version Concordance
Fish-gate (3 Occurrences). 2 Chronicles 33:14 And ...
/f/fish-gate.htm - 7k

Fish-hook (2 Occurrences)
Fish-hook. Fishhook, Fish-hook. Fishhooks . Multi-Version Concordance
Fish-hook (2 Occurrences). Job 41:1 Is it possible ...
/f/fish-hook.htm - 6k

Fish-spears (1 Occurrence)
Fish-spears. Fish's, Fish-spears. Fish-stump . Multi-Version Concordance
Fish-spears (1 Occurrence). Job 41:7 Canst thou fill his ...
/f/fish-spears.htm - 6k

Fish-hooks (1 Occurrence)
Fish-hooks. Fishhooks, Fish-hooks. Fishing . Easton's Bible
Dictionary Were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; Comp. ...
/f/fish-hooks.htm - 7k

Fish-stump (1 Occurrence)
Fish-stump. Fish-spears, Fish-stump. Fishy . Multi-Version Concordance
Fish-stump (1 Occurrence). 1 Samuel 5:4 And when ...
/f/fish-stump.htm - 6k

Fish's (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Fish's (1 Occurrence). Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to
Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS). ...
/f/fish's.htm - 6k

Fishing (4 Occurrences)
... He twice miraculously fed multitudes with fish and bread (Matthew 14:19; 15:36). ...
Fish were also caught by the fishing-hook (Matthew 17:27). (see NET.). ...
/f/fishing.htm - 13k

Fisherman (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) One whose occupation is to catch fish. 2. (n.) A ship or vessel employed
in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery. Int. ...
/f/fisherman.htm - 9k

Bible Concordance
Fish (66 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
(BBE DBY YLT NIV)

Matthew 13:47 "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,
(WEB WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 13:48 When full, they haul it up on the beach, and sit down and collect the good fish in baskets, while the worthless they throw away.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Matthew 14:17 They told him, "We only have here five loaves and two fish."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 14:19 He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 15:34 Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 15:36 and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Matthew 17:27 But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:38 He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:41 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 6:43 They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Mark 8:7 They had a few small fish. Having blessed them, he said to serve these also.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:4 And when his talk was ended, he said to Simon, Go out into deep water, and let down your nets for fish.
(BBE)

Luke 5:6 When they had done this, they caught a great multitude of fish, and their net was breaking.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 5:9 For he was amazed, and all who were with him, at the catch of fish which they had caught;
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Luke 9:13 But he said to them, "You give them something to eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 9:16 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 11:11 "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won't give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 24:42 They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 6:9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 6:11 Jesus took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down; likewise also of the fish as much as they desired.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:3 Simon Peter said to them, "I'm going fishing." They told him, "We are also coming with you." They immediately went out, and entered into the boat. That night, they caught nothing.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:5 So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:6 He said to them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." They cast it therefore, and now they weren't able to draw it in for the multitude of fish.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:8 But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
(WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:9 So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:10 Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have just caught."
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:11 Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land, full of great fish, one hundred fifty-three; and even though there were so many, the net wasn't torn.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

John 21:13 Then Jesus came and took the bread, gave it to them, and the fish likewise.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, another flesh of animals, another of fish, and another of birds.
(WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:26 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 9:2 The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 7:18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river."'"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 7:21 The fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians couldn't drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:5 We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Deuteronomy 4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 33:14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 3:3 The fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 12:39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 13:16 There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Job 41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 8:8 The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 19:8 The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
(KJV WBS)

Isaiah 50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishermen, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 29:5 I'll cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers. You'll fall on the open field. You won't be brought together, nor gathered. I have given you for food to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the sky.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 47:9 It shall happen, that every living creature which swarms, in every place where the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live wherever the river comes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 47:10 It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 4:3 Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Amos 4:2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jonah 1:17 Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jonah 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jonah 2:10 Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Habakkuk 1:14 and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 1:3 I will sweep away man and animal. I will sweep away the birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and the heaps of rubble with the wicked. I will cut off man from the surface of the earth, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 1:10 In that day, says Yahweh, there will be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Fish

The Hebrews recognized fish as one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, and as such gave them a place in the account of the creation, (Genesis 1:21,28) as well as in other passages where an exhaustive description of living creatures is intended. (Genesis 9:2; Exodus 20:4; 4:18; 1 Kings 4:33) The Mosaic law, (Leviticus 11:9,10) pronounced unclean such fish as were devoid of fins and scales; these were and are regarded as unwholesome in Egypt. Among the Philistines Dagon was represented by a figure half man and half fish. (1 Samuel 5:4) On this account the worship of fish is expressly prohibited. (4:18) In Palestine, the Sea of Galilee was and still is remarkable well stored with fish. (Tristram speaks of fourteen species found there, and thinks the number inhabiting it at least three times as great.) Jerusalem derived its supply chiefly from the Mediterranean. Comp. (Ezekiel 47:10) The existence of a regular fish-market is implied in the notice of the fish-gate, which was probably contiguous to it. (2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3; 12:39; Zephaniah 1:10) The Orientals are exceedingly fond of fish as an article of diet. Numerous allusions to the art of fishing occur in the Bible. The most usual method of catching fish was by the use of the net, either the casting net, (Ezekiel 26:5,14; 47:10); Habb 1:15 Probably resembling the one used in Egypt, as shown in Wilkinson (iii. 55), or the draw or drag net, (Isaiah 19:8); Habb 1:15 Which was larger, and required the use of a boat. The latter was probably most used on the Sea of Galilee, as the number of boats kept on it was very considerable.

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Genesis 9:2; Numbers 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the Jordan, so that the Hebrews were no doubt acquainted with many species. Two of the villages on the shores of the Sea of Galilee derived their names from their fisheries, Bethsaida (the "house of fish") on the east and on the west. There is probably no other sheet of water in the world of equal dimensions that contains such a variety and profusion of fish. About thirty-seven different kinds have been found. Some of the fishes are of a European type, such as the roach, the barbel, and the blenny; others are Markedly African and tropical, such as the eel-like silurus. There was a regular fish-market apparently in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 33:14; Nehemiah 3:3; 12:39; Zephaniah 1:10), as there was a fish-gate which was probably contiguous to it.

Sidon is the oldest fishing establishment known in history.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A counter, used in various games.

2. (n.) Plural of Fish.

3. (n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.

4. (n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.

5. (n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.

6. (n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.

7. (n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.

8. (n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.

9. (v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.

10. (v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

11. (v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.

12. (v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.

13. (v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.

14. (v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FISH

(dagh, daghah, da'gh; ichthus, ichthudion, opsarion):

1. Natural History:

Fishes abound in the inland waters of Palestine as well as the Mediterranean. They are often mentioned or indirectly referred to both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, but it is remarkable that no particular kind is distinguished by name. In Leviticus 11:9-12 and Deuteronomy 14:9, "whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters" is declared clean, while all that "have not fins and scales" are forbidden. This excluded not only reptiles and amphibians, but also, among fishes, siluroids and eels, sharks, rays and lampreys. For our knowledge of the inland fishes of Palestine we are mainly indebted to Tristram, NHB and Fauna and Flora of Palestine; Lortet, Poissons et reptiles du Lac de Tiberiade; and Russegger, Reisen in Europa, Asien, Afrika, 1835-1841. The most remarkable feature of the fish fauna of the Jordan valley is its relationship to that of the Nile and of East Central Africa. Two Nile fishes, Chromis nilotica Hasselquist, and Clarias macracanthus Gunth., are found in the Jordan valley, and a number of other species found only in the Jordan valley belong to genera (Chromis and Hemichromis) which are otherwise exclusively African. This seems to indicate that at some time, probably in the early Tertiary, there was some connection between the Palestinian and African river systems. No fish can live in the Dead Sea, and many perish through being carried down by the swift currents of the Jordan and other streams. There are, however, several kinds of small fish which live in salt springs on the borders of the Dead Sea, springs which are as salt as the Dead Sea but which, according to Lortet, lack the magnesium chloride which is a constituent of the Dead Sea water and is fatal to the fish. Capoeta damascina Cuv. and Val., one of the commonest fishes of Syria and Palestine, has been taken by the writer in large numbers in the Arnon and other streams flowing into

the Dead Sea. This is surprising in view of the fact that the Dead Sea seems to form an effective barrier between the fishes of the different streams flowing into it. The indiscriminate mention of fishes without reference to the different kinds is well illustrated by the numerous passages in which "the fishes of the sea, the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field," or some equivalent expression, is used to denote all living creatures, e.g. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:2 Numbers 11:22 Deuteronomy 4:18 1 Kings 4:33; Job 12:8 Psalm 8:8 Ezekiel 38:20 Hosea 4:3 Zephaniah 1:3 1 Corinthians 15:39.

2. Jonah's Fish:

An unusually large shark might fulfill the conditions of Jonah's fish (dagh, daghah; but Matthew 12:40, ketos, "whale" or "sea monster"). The whale that is found in the Mediterranean (Balaena australis) has a narrow throat and could not swallow a man. No natural explanation is possible of Jonah's remaining alive and conscious for three days in the creature's belly. Those who consider the book historical must regard the whole event as miraculous. For those who consider it to be a story with a purpose, no explanation is required.

3. Fishing:

The present inhabitants of Moab and Edom make no use of the fish that swarm in the Arnon, the Hisa and other streams, but fishing is an important industry in Galilee and Western Palestine. Now, as formerly, spear hooks and nets are employed. The fish-spear (Job 41:7) is little used. Most of the Old Testament references to nets have to do with the taking of birds and beasts and not of fishes, and, while in Habakkuk 1:15 cherem is rendered "net" and mikhmereth "drag," it is hot clear that these and the other words rendered "net" refer to particular kinds of nets. In the New Testament, however, sagene (Matthew 13:47), is clearly the dragnet, and amphiblestron (Matthew 4:18), is clearly the casting net. The word most often used is diktuon. Though this word is from dikein, "to throw," or "to cast," the context in several places (e.g. Luke 5:4 John 21:11) suggests that a dragnet is meant. The dragnet may be several hundred feet long. The upper edge is buoyed and the lower edge is weighted. It is let down from a boat in a line parallel to the shore and is then pulled in by ropes attached to the two ends, several men and boys usually pulling at each end. The use of the casting net requires much skill. It forms a circle of from 10 to 20 feet in diameter with numerous small leaden weights at the circumference. It is lifted by the center and carefully gathered over the right arm. When well thrown it goes to some distance, at the same time spreading out into a wide circle. A cord may be attached to the center, but this is not always the case. When lifted again by the center, the leads come together, dragging over the bottom, and sometimes a large number of fish may be enclosed. The novice has only to try, to realize the dexterity of the practiced fishermen.

Figurative: The fact that so many of our Lord's disciples were fishermen lends a profound interest to their profession. Christ tells Simon and Andrew (Matthew 4:19 Mark 1:17) that He will make them fishers of men. The Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 13:47) is likened unto a net that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind; which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but the bad they cast away. Tristram (NHB) says that he has seen the fishermen go through their net and throw out into the sea those that were too small for the market or were considered unclean. In Jeremiah 16:16, we read: "Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Yahweh, and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks." In the vision of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 47:9), the multitude of fish and the nets spread from En-gedi to En-eglaim are marks of the marvelous change wrought in the Dead Sea by the stream issuing from the temple. The same sign, i.e. of the spreading of nets (Ezekiel 26:5, 14), marks the desolation of Tyre. It is a piece of broiled fish that the risen Lord eats with the Eleven in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by the Sea of Galilee (John 21:13) He gives the disciples bread and fish.

Alfred Ely Day

FISH GATE

See JERUSALEM.

Greek
2486. ichthus -- a fish
... ichthus. 2487 . a fish. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: ichthus
Phonetic Spelling: (ikh-thoos') Short Definition: a fish Definition: a fish. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2486.htm - 6k

2485. ichthudion -- a little fish
... a little fish. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ichthudion Phonetic
Spelling: (ikh-thoo'-dee-on) Short Definition: a little fish Definition: a ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2485.htm - 6k

3795. opsarion -- fish
... fish. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: opsarion Phonetic Spelling:
(op-sar'-ee-on) Short Definition: a little fish Definition: a little fish. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3795.htm - 6k

4371. prosphagion -- a relish (eaten with bread), spec. fish
... fish. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: prosphagion Phonetic Spelling:
(pros-fag'-ee-on) Short Definition: anything eaten with bread Definition ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4371.htm - 6k

232. halieuo -- to fish
... halieuo. 233 . to fish. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: halieuo Phonetic
Spelling: (hal-ee-yoo'-o) Short Definition: I fish Definition: I fish. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/232.htm - 6k

2785. ketos -- a huge fish
... a huge fish. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ketos Phonetic Spelling:
(kay'-tos) Short Definition: a sea monster, huge fish Definition: a sea ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2785.htm - 6k

3013. lepis -- a scale (of a fish)
... a scale (of a fish). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: lepis Phonetic
Spelling: (lep-is') Short Definition: a scale, scaly substance Definition: a ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3013.htm - 6k

966. Bethsaida -- "house of fish," Bethsaida, the name of two ...
... 965, 966. Bethsaida. 967 . "house of fish," Bethsaida, the name of two
cities on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Part of Speech ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/966.htm - 6k

4209. porphura -- purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth
... purple fish, purple dye, purple cloth. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
porphura Phonetic Spelling: (por-foo'-rah) Short Definition: a purple ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4209.htm - 7k

61. agra -- hunting, a catch
... a catch. From ago; (abstractly) a catching (of fish); also (concretely) a haul
(of fish) -- draught. see GREEK ago. (agra) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/61.htm - 6k

Topical Bible Verses
Genesis 1:26
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 creeps on the earth.
Topicalbible.org

Genesis 1:1-31
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Topicalbible.org

Strong's Hebrew
1709. dag -- a fish
... a fish. Transliteration: dag Phonetic Spelling: (dawg) Short Definition: fish. Word
Origin from dagah Definition a fish NASB Word Usage fish (17), fishing (1). ...
/hebrew/1709.htm - 6k

1770. dig -- to fish for, catch
... 1769, 1770. dig. 1771 . to fish for, catch. Transliteration: dig Phonetic Spelling:
(deeg) Short Definition: fish. Word Origin denominative ...
/hebrew/1770.htm - 6k

1710. dagah -- a fish
... dagah. 1711 . a fish. Transliteration: dagah Phonetic Spelling: (daw-gaw') Short
Definition: fish. ... of dag Definition a fish NASB Word Usage fish (16). fish. ...
/hebrew/1710.htm - 6k

7193. qasqeseth -- scale (of fish)
... 7192, 7193. qasqeseth. 7194 . scale (of fish). Transliteration: qasqeseth
Phonetic Spelling: (kas-keh'-seth) Short Definition: scales. ...
/hebrew/7193.htm - 6k

1729. dugah -- fishing, fishery
... 1728, 1729. dugah. 1730 . fishing, fishery. Transliteration: dugah Phonetic
Spelling: (doo-gaw') Short Definition: fish. ... fish hook. ...
/hebrew/1729.htm - 6k

6721. Tsidon -- a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast, also ...
... Or Tsiydon {tsee-done'}; from tsuwd in the sense of catching fish; fishery; Tsidon,
the name of a son of Canaan, and of a place in Palestine -- Sidon, Zidon. ...
/hebrew/6721.htm - 6k

1712. Dagon -- a god and an idol of the Philistines
... 1). Dagon. From dag; the fish-god; Dagon, a Philistine deity -- Dagon. see
HEBREW dag. 1711, 1712. Dagon. 1713 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/1712.htm - 6k

5315. nephesh -- a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire ...
... or figurative sense (bodily or mental) -- any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature,
X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he ...
/hebrew/5315.htm - 7k

1295. berekah -- a pool, pond
... fishpool. From barak; a reservoir (at which camels kneel as a resting-place) --
(fish-)pool. see HEBREW barak. 1294, 1295. berekah. 1296 . Strong's Numbers
/hebrew/1295.htm - 6k

Library

A Fish-Story
... A FISH-STORY. A recent writer tells in ... his line dangling in front. And this
writer says that he used to catch many fish in this way. ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/a fish-story.htm

The Coin in the Fish's Mouth
... THE COIN IN THE FISH'S MOUTH. 'And when he was ... is wrought. The first fish that
rises carries in its mouth the exact sum needed. Here, therefore ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/the coin in the fishs.htm

The Stater in the Fish. (Matt. , xvii. , 27. )
... Section 191. The Stater in the Fish. ... The very first fish caught was to supply the
means; a stater, which it had swallowed, was found within it. ...
/.../section 191 the stater in.htm

"Being Accustomed to Eat Fish at the Time of Easter...
... Dialogues of Sulpitius Severus. Chapter X. "Being accustomed to eat fish
at the time of Easter� "Being accustomed to eat fish ...
/.../life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter x being accustomed to.htm

But that He Judgeth all Things, this Answers to his Having ...
... Book XIII Chapter XXIII But that he judgeth all things, this answers to
his having dominion over the fish� But that he judgeth ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xxiii but that he.htm

Thy Neck is as a Tower of ivory; Thine Eyes Like the Fish-Pools in ...
... 4. Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, which
are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude; thy nose is as the tower ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/4 thy neck is as.htm

Parable of the Various Kinds of Fish in the Net. --Of the Wheat ...
... CHAPTER VII. CHRIST'S FIRST GENERAL MINISTRY IN GALILEE. Section 130. Parable of
the various Kinds of Fish in the Net. "Of the Wheat and the Tares. ...
/.../section 130 parable of the.htm

Of his Paying the Tribute Money Out of the Mouth of the Fish, an ...
... The Prologue. Chapter LX."Of His Paying the Tribute Money Out of the Mouth
of the Fish, an Incident Which Matthew Alone Mentions. 118. ...
/.../augustine/the harmony of the gospels/chapter lx of his paying the.htm

John Chapter xxi. 12-19.
... 2. "And Jesus cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise." We
are likewise told here, you see, on what they dined; and of this dinner we also ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate cxxiii john chapter xxi.htm

Jesus Gives his Last Commands to his Helpers
... were still unable for very joy and wonder to believe, he said to them, "Have you
anything to eat here?" And when they gave him a piece of broiled fish, he ate ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/jesus gives his last commands.htm

Subtopics

Fish

Fish Gate

Fish Gate: General Scriptures Concerning

Fish Spear: General Scriptures Concerning

Fish: Appointed for Food

Fish: Broiled

Fish: Caught with Nets

Fish: Caught: Hooks

Fish: Caught: Spears

Fish: Clean and Unclean

Fish: Creation of

Fish: Figurative

Fish: Miracles Connected With of the Loaves and Fishes

Fish: Miracles Connected With: Coin Obtained from Mouth of

Fish: Miracles Connected With: Furnished to the Disciples by Jesus After his Resurrection

Fish: Miracles Connected With: Great Draught of

Fish: Miracles Connected With: Jonah Swallowed By

Fish: Ponds for in Egypt

Fish: Ponds for in Heshbon

Fish: Traffic In

Related Terms

Fish-pools (1 Occurrence)

Fish-gate (3 Occurrences)

Fish-hook (2 Occurrences)

Fish-spears (1 Occurrence)

Fish-hooks (1 Occurrence)

Fish-stump (1 Occurrence)

Fish's (1 Occurrence)

Fishing (4 Occurrences)

Fisherman (1 Occurrence)

Dagon (9 Occurrences)

Fisher (1 Occurrence)

Loaves (54 Occurrences)

Whale (2 Occurrences)

Broke (153 Occurrences)

Fishhook (1 Occurrence)

Fishpools (1 Occurrence)

Fishermen (8 Occurrences)

Fishy (1 Occurrence)

Thanks (151 Occurrences)

Distribute (23 Occurrences)

Portions (49 Occurrences)

Couple (19 Occurrences)

Scorpion (6 Occurrences)

Scales (33 Occurrences)

Catch (46 Occurrences)

Nets (33 Occurrences)

Tobit

Quantity (18 Occurrences)

Nephishesim (1 Occurrence)

Offer (403 Occurrences)

Ospray (2 Occurrences)

Fishers (8 Occurrences)

Distributed (30 Occurrences)

Drag (19 Occurrences)

Pieces (209 Occurrences)

Creeping (43 Occurrences)

Creepeth (17 Occurrences)

Colour (22 Occurrences)

Cormorant (4 Occurrences)

Asks (41 Occurrences)

Swim (8 Occurrences)

Scale (38 Occurrences)

Slice (4 Occurrences)

Snake (43 Occurrences)

Hook (10 Occurrences)

Anaharath (1 Occurrence)

Philistines (224 Occurrences)

Haul (5 Occurrences)

Net (91 Occurrences)

Moves (30 Occurrences)

Floods (37 Occurrences)

Nineveh (23 Occurrences)

Stomach (40 Occurrences)

Jonah (30 Occurrences)

Throw (135 Occurrences)

Plagues (28 Occurrences)

Present (577 Occurrences)

Animal (163 Occurrences)

Caught (110 Occurrences)

Food (2953 Occurrences)

Deluge (17 Occurrences)

Foul (41 Occurrences)

Nephusim (1 Occurrence)

Nephisim (1 Occurrence)

Nephish (1 Occurrence)

Offensive (15 Occurrences)

Jaws (12 Occurrences)

Lifting (157 Occurrences)

Loaf (14 Occurrences)

Gedi (6 Occurrences)

Wear (56 Occurrences)

Won't (144 Occurrences)

Instead (139 Occurrences)

Fishhooks (1 Occurrence)

Fathers (572 Occurrences)

Trumpeter (1 Occurrence)

Eneglaim (1 Occurrence)

En-gedi (6 Occurrences)

Links
Bible ConcordanceBible DictionaryBible EncyclopediaTopical BibleBible Thesuarus
Fir-wood
Top of Page
Top of Page