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title: דּוּגָה — fishing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דּוּגָה (1729), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fishing. BDB 1906: n.f. fishing, fishery. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דּוּגָה

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«דּוּגָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fishing** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1729 · **BDB:** דּוּגָה

### Glosses

of.fishing (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fishing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1729/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fishing, fishery [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1729/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fishing, fishery, only in וְנִשָּׂא בְּסִירוֹת דּוּגָה Am 4:2 (‖ בְּצִנּוֹת) of י׳, metaph. for dragging Isr. captive (cf. for practice referred to, in case of fish, Ez 29:4 \& Jb 40:26 scornful summons to do it with crocodile, if possible! v. Herod.ii. 70 on mode of capturing crocodiles).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 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 «דּוּגָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1729/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 4:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.4.2/)

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נִשְׁבַּ֨ע אֲדֹנָ֤י יְהוִה֙ בְּקָדְשׁ֔וֹ כִּ֛י הִנֵּ֥ה יָמִ֖ים בָּאִ֣ים עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם וְנִשָּׂ֤א אֶתְכֶם֙ בְּצִנּ֔וֹת וְאַחֲרִיתְכֶ֖ן בְּסִיר֥וֹת דּוּגָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.sworn Lord \[the\] Yahweh by holiness his (dm) here! days \[are\].coming on you and someone.will.take.away you with barbs and posterity your with hooks of.fishing

*JPS 1917:* The Lord GOD hath sworn by His holiness: Lo, surely the days shall come upon you, that ye shall be taken away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.

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