Word

דָּגָה

dâgâh · H1710 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences

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Meanings

fish

Collective designation of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, usually fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales; or, in a loosely sense, any of various other aquatic animals; an important source of food

Examples
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make mankind 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 crawling thing that crawls on the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 God blessed them; and God 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 living thing that moves on the earth.”
Exodus 7:18 “Then the fish that are in the Nile will die, the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will no longer be able to drink water from the Nile.”’”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 3 groups

יְאֹרriver Nile 3
יָםsea 3
הֶםtheir 3

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 3 groups

יְאֹרriver Nile 2
אָכַלto eat, to devour 1
מַיִםwater 1

What it doesIt is the subject

6 occurrences in 4 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 2
מוּתto die 2
דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1
בָּאַשׁto become foul 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דָּבַקto cling, to cleave 1
מוּתto die 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

בin/on/with 2
כlike/as 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מֵעֶהbowels 1
תַּבְנִיתpattern, likeness, form 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

ἰχθύς ichthýs · G2486 · sea creature, fish: Greek ἰχθύς (ichthys) is the standard Septuagint rendering of Hebrew דָּגָה (dagah), both denoting fish as aquatic creatures; the Hebrew term encompasses both individual fish and collective fish in various contexts, while Greek ἰχθύς functions identically as the direct translation equivalent across biblical texts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Aquatic Animals001001002004: The noun denotes fish collectively, used in the creation account's description of dominion given over the fish of the sea.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּגָהdâgâh · H1710דָּגָן dâgân · H1715 · grain, new grain · 40×דָּג dâg · H1709 · fish · 19×דָּגָה dâgâh · H1711 · to grow, to increase, to multiply · 1×דַּוָּג davvâg · H1728 · fisherman · 1×דּוּגָה dûwgâh · H1729 · fishing · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1710. dagah דָּגָה noun feminine fish (Late Hebrew id.) — דָּגָה Num 11:5 Num 11:5t.;…

H1710. dagah
דָּגָה noun feminine fish (Late Hebrew id.) — דָּגָה Num 11:5 Num 11:5t.; construct דְּגַת Gen 1:26 Gen 1:4t. + Eze 29:4b (strike out B Co); suffix דְּגָתוֺ Eze 47:10 ᵑ9 ᵐ5 Co; (דגתם ᵑ0), דְּגָתָם Isa 50:2; Psa 105:29 + Eze 47:10 ᵑ0 compare above — fish, almost always collective; fish of sea הַיָּם דְּגַת Gen 1:26, Gen 1:28 (P) Eze 47:10 (in simile); in Nile (יְאֹר) Exo 7:18, Exo 7:21 (E) compare Psa 105:29, יְאֹרֶיךָ דְּגַת Eze 29:4 (twice in verse) (compare above) Eze 29:5; in sea and rivers Isa 50:2; Eze 47:9-10, food in Egypt Num 11:5 (JE); image of fish forbidden in worship, as of beasts and birds Deu 4:18 (on sacredness of fish, and use in sacrifice compare SeldenDe Diis Syris, ii. 3. RSSern. i. 274); of single fish only Jon 2:2 (Jon 2:1 (twice in verse); Jonah 2:11 דָּג) by late usage; compare conversely דָּאג = דָּגָהcollective Neh 13:16.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Aquatic Animals14 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0