Lexical Definition

‎דָּג‎ dâg (dawg) Fish (Gate) ^H:N-M
or (fully) דָּאג dâʼg (dawg); (Nehemiah 13:16), from ‎דָּגָה‎; a fish (as prolific); or perhaps rather from ‎דָּאַג‎ (as timid); but still better from ‎דָּאַג‎ (in the sense of squirming, i.e. moving by the vibratory action of the tail)

fish.

• a fish (often used collectively)

1) fish

See Greek: ἁλιεύς · ἰχθύς · κῆτος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎דָּאג‎ fish, compare ‎דָּג‎ below ‎דגה‎.

‎דָּג‎ noun masculine^{Jonah 2:1*} fish (Late Hebrew id.) — ‎דָּג‎ Jonah 2:1* (twice in verse); Jonah 2:11* + Neh 13:16 Qr (Kt ‎דָּאג‎); ‎דָּגִים‎ 1Kgs 5:13* + 6 t.; ‎דְּגֵי‎ Gen 9:2 + 7 t.; — fish of sea Jonah 2:1* (twice in verse); Jonah 2:11* (in v.Jonah 1:1 ‎גָּדוֺל‎ ‎׳‎‎ד‎); Neh 13:16 (‎דָּאג‎ Kt ‎דָּג‎ article of Tyrian trade; only here collective, read perhaps ‎דָּגָה‎; or regard as late usage, compare converse ‎דָּגָה‎ of individual Jonah 2:2*); — elsewhere always plural: as subject of Solomon's utterance 1Kgs 5:13* fish-spear ‎צִלְצַל דגים‎ Job 40:31* most often ‎דְּגֵי הַיָּם‎Gen 9:2 (P), Ps 8:9*; Hos 4:3; Zeph 1:3; Ezek 38:20; Job 12:8 (in all opposed to beasts & birds, & apparently used with them, + ‎רֶמֶשׂ‎ Ezekiel compare verb ‎רמשׂ‎ Genesis, for animal creation in general; also Hab 1:14 compare below); Num 11:22 (JE) of fish (with beasts) as food (compare Gen 9:2f.) in simile of men ensnared, like fish taken in net (‎מְצוֺדָה‎) Eccl 9:12 compare Hab 1:14 (‎דְּגֵי הַיָּם‎); 4 t. ‎שַׁעַר הַדָּגִים‎ fish-gate 2Chr 33:14; Zeph 1:10; Neh 3:3; Neh 12:39 (on situation compare ‎שַׁעַר‎).

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