dag · fish

What it means

dag (דָּג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fish”.

Fish as a whole.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A creature that lives in the water of rivers and the sea.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1
• Jonah×3
• Habakkuk×1
• Zephaniah×2

• Genesis 9:2

  And the fear and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth and on every bird of the sky, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are given.

• Numbers 11:22

  Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered for them, to be enough for them?”

• 1 Kings 4:33

  And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that comes out in the wall; and he spoke of the beasts, and of the birds, and of the creeping things, and of the fish.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• Nehemiah 3:3

  And the Fish Gate the sons of Senaah built; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 12:39

  and above the Ephraim Gate, and by the Old Gate, and by the Fish Gate, and the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate; and they stopped at the Guard Gate.

• Nehemiah 13:16

  And the Tyrians lived in it, bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise, and selling on the Sabbath to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

• Job 12:8

  or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will recount it to you.

• Job 41:7

  Can you fill its skin with darts, or its head with a harpoon for fish?

• Psalms 8:8

  the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

• Ecclesiastes 9:12

  For also the human being does not know his time; like fish that are caught in an evil net, and like birds caught in the snare, so are human beings ensnared at an evil time when it falls on them suddenly.

• Ezekiel 38:20

  And they will quake before me, the fish of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the animals of the field, and every creeping thing that creeps on the ground, and every human being that is on the face of the ground; and the mountains will be thrown down, and the steep places will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth.

• Hosea 4:3

  Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who lives in it will languish, with the animals of the field and with the birds of the heavens; and even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

• Jonah 1:17

  And YHWH appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was in the inner parts of the fish three days and three nights.

• Jonah 2:10

  Then YHWH spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah onto the dry land.

• Habakkuk 1:14

  And you make human beings like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.

• Zephaniah 1:3

  I will gather human being and livestock; I will gather the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked; and I will cut off human beings from upon the face of the ground, declares YHWH.

• Zephaniah 1:10

  And it will happen on that day, declares YHWH, that there will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate, and wailing from the Second Quarter, and a great crash from the hills.

And 1 more times.