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title: דָּגָה — fish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּגָה (1710), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: fish. BDB 1906: n.f. fish. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּגָה

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«דָּגָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 15 times · **Key:** 1710 · **BDB:** דָּגָה²

### Glosses

fish (8); the.fish (7)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fish (NH id.)—דָּגָה Nu 11:5 + 5 times; cstr. דְּגַת Gn 1:26 + 4 times + Ez 29:4b (del. B Co); sf. דְּגָתוֹ Ez 47:10 𝔊 𝔙 Co; (MT דגתם), דְּגָתָם Is 50:2 ψ 105:29 + Ez 47:10 MT cf. supr.—fish, almost always coll.; fish of sea דְּגַת הַיָּם Gn 1:26, 28 (P) Ez 47:10 (in sim.); in Nile (יְאֹר) Ex 7:18, 21 (E) cf. ψ 105:29, דְּגַת יְאֹרֶיךָ Ez 29:4(×2) (cf. supr.) v 5; in sea and rivers Is 50:2 Ez 47:9, 10; food in Egypt Nu 11:5 (JE); image of fish forbidden in worship, as of beasts and birds Dt 4:18 (on sacredness of fish, and use in sacrifice cf. SeldenDe Diis Syris, ii. 3; RSSem i. 274); of single fish only Jon 2:2 (2:1(×2), 11 דָּג) by late usage; cf. conversely דָּאג = דָּגָה coll. Ne 13:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּגָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1710/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 105:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.29/)

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הָפַ֣ךְ אֶת־מֵימֵיהֶ֣ם לְדָ֑ם וַ֝יָּ֗מֶת אֶת־דְּגָתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* he.turned (et) water their into blood and he.caused.to.die (et) fish their

*JPS 1917:* He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

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[Jonah 2:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JON.2.2/)

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וַיִּתְפַּלֵּ֣ל יוֹנָ֔ה אֶל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהָ֑יו מִמְּעֵ֖י הַדָּגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.prayed Jonah to Yahweh God his from the.inward.parts of the.fish

*JPS 1917:* Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly.

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