Lexical Definition

‎דָּגָה‎ dâgâh (daw-gaw') fish ^H:N-F
feminine of ‎דָּג‎, and meaning the same

fish.

• {a fish (often used collectively)}

1) fish

See Greek: ἰχθύς

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎דָּגָה‎ noun feminine fish (Late Hebrew id.) — ‎דָּגָה‎ Num 11:5 + 5 t.; construct ‎דְּגַת‎ Gen 1:26 + 4 t. + Ezek 29:4b (strike out B Co); suffix ‎דְּגָתוֺ‎ Ezek 47:10 ᵐ5 ᵑ9 Co; (ᵑ0 ‎דגתם‎), ‎דְּגָתָם‎ Isa 50:2; Ps 105:29 + Ezek 47:10 ᵑ0 compare above — fish, almost always collective; fish of sea ‎דְּגַת הַיָּם‎ Gen 1:26; Gen 1:28 (P) Ezek 47:10 (in simile); in Nile (‎יְאֹר‎) Exod 7:18; Exod 7:21 (E) compare Ps 105:29, ‎דְּגַת יְאֹרֶיךָ‎ Ezek 29:4 (twice in verse) (compare above) vEzek 29:5 in sea and rivers Isa 50:2; Ezek 47:9; Ezek 47:10 food in Egypt Num 11:5 (JE); image of fish forbidden in worship, as of beasts and birds Deut 4:18 (on sacredness of fish, and use in sacrifice compare Selden^{De Diis Syris, ii. 3.} RS^{Sern. i. 274}); of single fish only Jonah 2:2* (Jonah 2:1* (twice in verse); Jonah 2:11* ‎דָּג‎) by late usage; compare conversely ‎דָּאג‎ = ‎דָּגָה‎collective Neh 13:16.

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