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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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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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Fish-hooks in Easton's Bible Dictionary

were used for catching fish (Amos 4:2; comp. Isa. 37:29; Jer. 16:16; Ezek. 29:4; Job. 41:1, 2; Matt. 17:27)....

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Fish in Naves Topical Bible

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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Fishing Scripture - John 21:3

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing....

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Fishermen in Naves Topical Bible

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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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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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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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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