דָּג noun masculine[Jonah 2:1] fish (Late Hebrew id.) — דָּג [Jonah 2:1] (twice in verse); [Jonah 2:11] + [Neh 13:16] Qr (Kt דָּאג); דָּגִים [1Kgs 5:13] + 6 t.; דְּגֵי [Gen 9:2] + 7 t.; — fish of sea [Jonah 2:1] (twice in verse); [Jonah 2:11] (in v.[Jonah 1:1] גָּדוֺל ׳ד); [Neh 13:16] (דָּאג Kt דָּג article of Tyrian trade; only here collective, read perhaps דָּגָה; or regard as late usage, compare converse דָּגָה of individual [Jonah 2:2]); — elsewhere always plural: as subject of Solomon's utterance [1Kgs 5:13] fish-spear צִלְצַל דגים [Job 40:31] most often דְּגֵי הַיָּם[Gen 9:2] (P), [Ps 8:9]; [Hos 4:3]; [Zeph 1:3]; [Ezek 38:20]; [Job 12:8] (in all opposed to beasts & birds, & apparently used with them, + רֶמֶשׂ Ezekiel compare verb רמשׂ Genesis, for animal creation in general; also [Hab 1:14] compare below); [Num 11:22] (JE) of fish (with beasts) as food (compare [Gen 9:2]f.) in simile of men ensnared, like fish taken in net (מְצוֺדָה) [Eccl 9:12] compare [Hab 1:14] (דְּגֵי הַיָּם); 4 t. שַׁעַר הַדָּגִים fish-gate [2Chr 33:14]; [Zeph 1:10]; [Neh 3:3]; [Neh 12:39] (on situation compare שַׁעַר).
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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