Fishing
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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General scriptures concerning
Job 41:7...
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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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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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Certain apostles
Mt 4:18-21; Mr 1:16,19; Joh 21:2,3
-FIGURATIVE
Jer 16:16; Mt 4:19...
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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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Creation of
Ge 1:20-22
-Appointed for food
Ge 9:2,3
-Clean and unclean
Le 11:9-12; De 14:9,10
-Caught
With nets
Ec 9:12; Hab 1
Hooks
Isa 19:8; Am 4:2; Mt 17:27
Spears
Job 41:7
-Ponds for
In Heshbon
So 7:4
In Egypt
Isa 19:10
-Traffic in
Ne 13:16; Joh 21:13
-Broiled
Joh 21:9-13; Lu 24:42
-Miracles connected with
Jonah swallowed...
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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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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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(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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