דָּגָה
dâgâh · daw-gaw'
{a fish (often used collectively)}
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H1709 (דָּג), and meaning the same
{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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to carry, to lift up › to reveal, behold
The doorway, the way in that works to carry, to lift up that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּגָה 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- their fish3 · 20%
- over the fish2 · 13%
- and the fish2 · 13%
- the fish1 · 7%
- of any fish1 · 7%
- and i will cause the fish1 · 7%
- and all the fish1 · 7%
- thee and all the fish1 · 7%
- multitude of fish1 · 7%
- as the fish1 · 7%
- out of the fish's1 · 7%
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.