דָּג
dâg · dawg
a fish (often used collectively)
Lexicon
Derivation: or (fully) דָּאג; (Nehemiah 13:16), from H1711 (דָּגָה); a fish (as prolific); or perhaps rather from H1672 (דָּאַג) (as timid); but still better from H1672 (דָּאַג) (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail);
a fish (often used collectively)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: fish.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to carry, to lift up
The doorway, the way in that works to carry, to lift up.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּג above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- fish3 · 15%
- as the fishes2 · 10%
- and upon all the fishes1 · 5%
- them? or shall all the fish1 · 5%
- and of fishes1 · 5%
- at the fish1 · 5%
- but the fish1 · 5%
- and above the fish1 · 5%
- thee: and the fishes1 · 5%
- with fish1 · 5%
- and the fish1 · 5%
- so that the fishes1 · 5%
- yea, the fishes1 · 5%
- of the fish1 · 5%
- unto the fish1 · 5%
- and the fishes1 · 5%
- from the fish1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.