Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1710
דָּגָה
dagahdaw-gaw'
fish
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dâgâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1710is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1710
{a fish (often used collectively)}
The King James renders it: fish.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dagah is rendered "fish". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Six of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Genesis 1:26בִדְגַ֨ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fish of3
- fish their3
- the fish3
- and the fish2
- over fish of2
- fish1
- like fish of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| דָּגָן | dagan | grain | Uses40 |
| דָּג | dag | Fish (Gate) | Uses19 |
| דָּגוֹן | Dagon | Dagon | Uses13 |
| דָּגַל | dagal | to look | Uses4 |
| דָּגַר | dagar | to gather | Uses2 |
| דָּגָה | dagah | to multiply | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דְּגַ֣ת2
- בִדְגַ֨ת1
- בִּדְגַ֤ת1
- דָּגָ֥ה1
- דְגַת־1
- דְגָתָ֔ם1
- דְּגָתָם֙1
- דְּגָתָֽם׃1
- הַדָּגָ֔ה1
- הַדָּגָ֖ה1
- הַדָּגָֽה׃1
- וְהַדָּגָ֧ה1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HNcfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular3HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Td/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
Genesis
two uses
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- בִדְגַ֨תvidgatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: over fish of
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- בִּדְגַ֤תbidgatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: over fish of
Exodus
two uses
The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
- וְהַדָּגָ֧הvehadagahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the fish
The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
- וְהַדָּגָ֨הvehadagahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the fish
Numbers
one use
We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.
- הַדָּגָ֔הhadagahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fish
Deuteronomy
one use
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
- דָּגָ֥הdagahnoun · feminine singulartagged: fish
Psalms
one use
He turned their waters to blood and caused their fish to die.
- דְּגָתָֽם׃degatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: fish their
Isaiah
one use
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
- דְּגָתָם֙degatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: fish their
Ezekiel
six uses
But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
- דְגַת־degat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fish of
- דְּגַ֣תdegatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fish of
I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
- דְּגַ֣תdegatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fish of
Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.
- הַדָּגָ֖הhadagahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fish
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
- דְגָתָ֔םdegatamnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: fish their
- כִּדְגַ֛תkidgatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like fish of
Jonah
one use
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
- הַדָּגָֽה׃hadagahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fish
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.