STRONGS NUMBER H1710

H1710. dagah

דָּגָה‎ noun feminine fish (Late Hebrew id.) — דָּגָה‎ Numbers 11:5 5t.; construct דְּגַת‎ Genesis 1:26 4t. + Ezekiel 29:4b (strike out B Co); suffix דְּגָתוֺ‎ 47:10 ᵑ9 ᵐ5‎ Co; (דגתם ᵑ0‎), דְּגָתָם‎ Isaiah 50:2; Psalm 105:29 + Ezekiel 47:10 ᵑ0‎ compare above — fish, almost always collective; fish of sea הַיָּם דְּגַת‎ Genesis 1:26, 28 (P) Ezekiel 47:10 (in simile); in Nile (יְאֹר‎) Exodus 7:18, 21 (E) compare Psalm 105:29, יְאֹרֶיךָ דְּגַת‎ Ezekiel 29:4 (twice in verse) (compare above) 29:5; in sea and rivers Isaiah 50:2; Ezekiel 47:9-10, food in Egypt Numbers 11:5 (JE); image of fish forbidden in worship, as of beasts and birds Deuteronomy 4:18 (on sacredness of fish, and use in sacrifice compare Selden^{De Diis Syris, ii. 3.} RS^{Sern. i. 274}); of single fish only Jonah 2:2 (2:1 (twice in verse); Jonah 2:11 דָּג‎) by late usage; compare conversely דָּאג‎ = דָּגָה‎collective Nehemiah 13:16.