דָּגָה dagah

Hebrew word for “fish” · Strong’s H1710 · used 15 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

fish

How it is translated

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

• fish 12
• over the fish 2
• like the fish 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 1 (2), Exodus 7 (2), Ezekiel 29 (2), Ezekiel 47 (2), Numbers 11 (1), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Isaiah 50 (1), Jonah 2 (1)

Forms

• הדגה 3
• דגתם 3
• דגת 3
• בדגת 2
• והדגה 2
• דגה 1
• כדגת 1

Words used with it

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

• יְאֹר yeor “Nile” 4
• מַי mayim “water” 6
• בָּאַשׁ baash “to stink” 3
• רָמַשׂ ramas “to creep” 3
• עוֹף oph “bird” 3
• יָם yam “sea” 4
• מוּת mut “to die” 4
• רָדָה radah “to rule” 2
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 3
• מִצְרִי mitsri “Egyptian” 2
• חַי chay “alive” 3
• שָׁתָה shatah “to drink” 2

Key verses

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

• Genesis 1:26 — And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the…
• Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea,…
• Exodus 7:18 — And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
• Exodus 7:21 — And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all…
• Numbers 11:5 — We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
• Psalms 105:29 — He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
• Ezekiel 29:4 — But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers,…
• Ezekiel 29:5 — And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought…
• Ezekiel 47:9 — And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great…
• Ezekiel 47:10 — And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall…
• Jonah 2:1 — Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,

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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.