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# דָּגָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1710

**fish** — used 15 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּגָה²: n.f. fish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fish (NH id.)—דָּגָה Nu 11:5 + 5 times; cstr. דְּגַת Gn 1:26 + 4 times + Ez 29:4b (del. B Co); sf. דְּגָתוֹ Ez 47:10 𝔊 𝔙 Co; (MT דגתם), דְּגָתָם Is 50:2 ψ 105:29 + Ez 47:10 MT cf. supr.—fish, almost always coll.; fish of sea דְּגַת הַיָּם Gn 1:26, 28 (P) Ez 47:10 (in sim.); in Nile (יְאֹר) Ex 7:18, 21 (E) cf. ψ 105:29, דְּגַת יְאֹרֶיךָ Ez 29:4(×2) (cf. supr.) v 5; in sea and rivers Is 50:2 Ez 47:9, 10; food in Egypt Nu 11:5 (JE); image of fish forbidden in worship, as of beasts and birds Dt 4:18 (on sacredness of fish, and use in sacrifice cf. SeldenDe Diis Syris, ii. 3; RSSem i. 274); of single fish only Jon 2:2 (2:1(×2), 11 דָּג) by late usage; cf. conversely דָּאג = דָּגָה coll. Ne 13:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fish (8); the fish (7).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.29/#tree)

הָפַ֣ךְ אֶת־מֵימֵיהֶ֣ם לְדָ֑ם וַ֝יָּ֗מֶת אֶת־דְּגָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.turned (et) water their into blood and he.caused.to.die (et) fish their

*JPS 1917:* He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

[Jonah 2:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.2.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.2.2/#tree)

וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל יוֹנָ֔ה אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהָ֑יו מִמְּעֵ֖י הַדָּגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.prayed Jonah to Yahweh God his from the.inward.parts of the.fish

*JPS 1917:* Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1710.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).