Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
Fish (Gate)
Usage: fish
Dag means “fish” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1709 — empneo (“breathe”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1709 דָּג דָּאגּ (dag) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. dag (dawg) (or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13) n-m. 1. a fish (as prolific) 2. or perhaps rather from H1672 (as timid) It has 18 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include fish and fishes. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
dag (dawg) (or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13) n-m. 1. a fish (as prolific) 2. or perhaps rather from H1672 (as timid) 3. but still better from H1672 (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail) 4. a fish (often used collectively) [from H1711] KJV: fish. Root(s): H1711 See also: H1672, H1672
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Fish (Gate)
Usage: fish
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render dag, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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 all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
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 creeping things, and of fishes.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1709.
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 all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
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 creeping things, and of fishes.
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 about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
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.
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 gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
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 an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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 that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
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 of the sea also shall be taken away.
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.
And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.
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 crashing from the hills.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1709, grouped by book.
Dag (Strong's H1709) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fish". dag (dawg) (or (fully) dag (Nehemiah 13) n-m. 1. a fish (as prolific) 2. or perhaps rather from H1672 (as timid)
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H1709 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1709 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as fish and fishes. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.