daga · fish

What it means

daga (דָּגָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fish”.

Everything that lives in the water (a collective word).

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. The creatures that live in the water, taken all together.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 1:26

  And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule 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.”

• Genesis 1:28

  And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”

• Exodus 7:18

  The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will loathe to drink water from the Nile.”’”

• Exodus 7:21

  The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile; and the blood was in all the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 11:5

  We remember the fish that we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic.

• Deuteronomy 4:18

  the representation of any creeping thing on the ground, the representation of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.

• Psalms 105:29

  He turned their waters into blood and caused their fish to die.

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why did I come, and there was no one; I called, and there was no one to answer? Is my hand really too short to ransom? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look, by my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; their fish stink for lack of water, and die of thirst.

• Ezekiel 29:4

  And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your channels stick to your scales; and I will bring you up from the midst of your channels, and all the fish of your channels will stick to your scales.

• Ezekiel 29:5

  And I will leave you in the wilderness, you and all the fish of your channels; on the face of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered nor be collected; to the animals of the earth and to the birds of the heavens I have given you as food.

• Ezekiel 47:9

  And it will be that every living being that swarms wherever the two torrents go there will live; and there will be very many fish, for this water goes there, and the waters will be healed, and everything will live wherever the torrent goes.

• Ezekiel 47:10

  And it will be that fishermen will stand beside it from En-gedi to En-eglaim; there will be a place for spreading nets; according to its kinds will be their fish, like the fish of the great sea, very many.

• Jonah 2:1

  Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his Elohim from the inner parts of the fish,

And 2 more times.