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Fishermen Scripture - Luke 5:2

And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing [their] nets....

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Fish Spear in Naves Topical Bible

General scriptures concerning Job 41:7...

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Fish in Smiths Bible Dictionary

The Hebrews recognized fish as one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, and as such gave them a place in the account of the creation, Ge 1:21,28 as well as in other passages where an exhaustive description of living creatures is intended. Ge 9:2; Ex 20:4; De 4:18; 1Ki 4:33 The Mosaic law, Le 11:9,10 pronounced unclean such fish as wer...

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Fish in Easton's Bible Dictionary

called _dag_ by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the Jordan, so that the Hebrews were no doubt acquainted with many species. Two of the villages on the shores of t...

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Fish in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

(dagh, daghah, da'gh; ichthus, ichthudion, opsarion): 1. Natural History: Fishes abound in the inland waters of Israel as well as the Mediterranean. They are often mentioned or indirectly referred to both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, but it is remarkable that no particular kind is distinguished by name. In Lev 11:9-12 and Dt 1...

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Fisher in Easton's Bible Dictionary

Besides its literal sense (Luke 5:2), this word is also applied by our Lord to his disciples in a figurative sense (Matt. 4:19; Mark 1:17)....

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Fishing in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fish'-ing (halieuo): Several methods of securing fish are resorted to at the present day along the seashores of Israel. Two of these, dynamiting and poisoning with the juice of cyclamen bulbs or other poisonous plants, can be passed over as havi ng no bearing on ancient methods. (1) With Hooks: Some fishing is done with hooks and lines, either ...

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Fisherman in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fish'-er fish'-er-man (dayyagh, dawwagh; halieus; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek haleeus): Although but few references to fishermen are made in the Bible, these men and their calling are brought into prominence by Jesus' call to certain Galilee fishermen to become His disciples (Mt 4:18,19; Mk 1:16,17). Fishermen, then as n...

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The Art of Fishing in Easton's Bible Dictionary

was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Israel. It was from the fishing-nets that Jesus called his disciples (Mark 1:16-20), and it was in a fishing-boat he rebuked the winds and the waves (Matt. 8:26) and delivered that remarkable series of prophecies recorded in Matt. 13. He twice miraculously fed multitudes with fish and bre...

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Fishhook in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

fish'-hook (cir dughah, chakkah): The word "fishhooks" occurs but twice in the American Standard Revised Version (Job 41:1; Am 4:2). In other passages the word hook or "angle" is applied to this instrument for fishing (Isa 19:8; Job 41:2). The ancient Egyptian noblemen used to amuse themselves by fishing from their private fishpools with hook ...

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