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# דָּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1709

**fish** — used 19 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/1491/1709/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּג: n.m. fish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1709/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Jon 2:1 fish (NH id.)—דָּג Jon 2:1(×2), 11 + Ne 13:16 Qr (Kt דָּאג); דָּגִים 1 K 5:13 + 6 times; דְּגֵי Gn 9:2 + 7 times;—fish of sea Jon 2:1(×2), 11 (in v 1 ד׳ גָּדוֹל); Ne 13:16 (דָּאג Kt דָּג article of Tyrian trade; only here coll., read perhaps דָּגָה; or regard as late usage, cf. converse דָּגָה of individual Jon 2:2);—elsewhere always pl.: as subj. of Solomon’s utterance 1 K 5:13; fish-spear צִלְצַל דגים Jb 40:31; most often דְּגֵי הַיָּם Gn 9:2 (P), ψ 8:9 Ho 4:3 Zp 1:3 Ez 38:20 Jb 12:8 (in all opp. to beasts & birds, & appar. used with them, + רֶמֶשׂ Ez. cf. vb. רמשׂ Gn, for animal creation in general; also Hb 1:14 cf. infr.); Nu 11:22 (JE) of fish (with beasts) as food (cf. Gn 9:2f.) in simile of men ensnared, like fish taken in net (מְצוֹדָה) Ec 9:12 cf. Hb 1:14 (דְּגֵי הַיָּם); 4 times שַׁעַר הַדָּגִים fish-gate 2 Ch 33:14 Zp 1:10 Ne 3:3; 12:39 (on situation cf. שַׁעַר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the fish(es) (12); fish (2); fish(es) (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 8:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.8.9/#tree)

צִפּ֣וֹר שָׁ֭מַיִם וּדְגֵ֣י הַיָּ֑ם עֹ֝בֵ֗ר אָרְח֥וֹת יַמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].bird\[s\] of.\[the\].heavens and the.fish(es) of the.sea \[that.which\].passes.through \[the\].paths of.\[the\].seas

*JPS 1917:* The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea; whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

[Job 40:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.31/#tree)

הַֽתְמַלֵּ֣א בְשֻׂכּ֣וֹת עוֹר֑וֹ וּבְצִלְצַ֖ל דָּגִ֣ים רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* will you.fill? with harpoons hide its and with a.spear of.fish(es) head its

*JPS 1917:* Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1709.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1709/): 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).