Fishing
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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(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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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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FISHERMEN
Places for fishing. In Israel the main fishing places have been along the Mediterranean coast, and in the Sea of Galilee, with some little done in the streams of water. The Israelites in the wilderness said: "We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt" (Numbers 11:5). Most interest centers in the Galilee fishing, because of the Gosp...
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Fishing at night. Galilee fishermen often have fished at night. They light their way with a blazing torch, and sighting fish they let fly their fishing spear, or fling their net into the sea.
But sometimes they fish all night with no results, as was the case with Simon Peter and his comrades. "Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken no...
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This way of fishing illustrates the value of co-operative effort. A number of men will work together. Some of them will row the boats, some will have to pull the rope with great strength, and some will throw stones or in other ways seek to keep the fish from getting away by frightening them. As they get close to the shore, the edges of the net are ...
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The dragnet or drawnet. JESUS used this sort of fishing as the basis for one of his parables. "Again the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind: which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away" (Matthew 13:47, 48). This net is ...
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The cast net or handnet. Two of the disciples were busy with such a net when JESUS called them to be fishers of men. "Now as he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men" (Mark 1:16, 17)...
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spearing of fish. The book of Job refers to this method of fishing. "Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?" (Job 41:7). That such method was practiced in Egypt is proven by inscriptions picturing Egyptians using fishing-spears. [Manners And Customs of Bible Lands]...
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