דָּג dag

Hebrew word for “fish” · Strong’s H1709 · used 19 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

fish

Senses in the lexicon

• fish (15)
• Fish (Gate) (4)

How it is translated

Glosses given for dag in context, with how often each is used:

• fish 14
• fishes 3
• like fishes 1
• like the fish 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Zephaniah 1 (2), Genesis 9 (1), Numbers 11 (1), 1 Kings 4 (1), 2 Chronicles 33 (1), Nehemiah 3 (1), Nehemiah 12 (1), Nehemiah 13 (1), Job 12 (1), Job 41 (1)

Forms

• דגי 5
• הדגים 5
• ודגי 2
• דאג 1
• דגים 1
• כדגים 1
• דג 1
• הדג 1
• לדג 1
• כדגי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with dag more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• יָם yam “sea” 8
• עוֹף oph “bird” 5
• רֶמֶשׂ remes “creeping” 3
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 5
• שַׁעַר shaar “gate” 4
• אָדָם adam “man” 4
• רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 2
• יוֹנָה yonah “Jonah” 2
• אֲדָמָה adamah “land” 3
• צִפּוֹר tsippor “bird” 2
• חַי chay “alive” 3
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 2

Key verses

The verses using dag that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 9:2 — And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon…
• 1 Kings 4:33 — And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of…
• 2 Chronicles 33:14 — Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed…
• Nehemiah 3:3 — But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
• Nehemiah 12:39 — And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep…
• Ecclesiastes 9:12 — For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in…
• Ezekiel 38:20 — So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men…
• Hosea 4:3 — Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes…
• Jonah 1:17 — Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Jonah 2:10 — And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
• Zephaniah 1:3 — I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off…
• Zephaniah 1:10 — And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.