Dict: easton - Fish

easton:

Fish @ called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity kjv@Genesis:9:2; kjv@Numbers:11:22; kjv@Jonah:2:1 kjv@Jonah:2:10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of the Jordan, so that the Hebrews were no doubt acquainted with many species. Two of the villages on the shores of the Sea of Galilee derived their names from their fisheries, Bethsaida (the "house of fish") on the east and on the west. There is probably no other sheet of water in the world of equal dimensions that contains such a variety and profusion of fish. About thirty-seven different kinds have been found. Some of the fishes are of a European type, such as the roach, the barbel, and the blenny; others are markedly African and tropical, such as the eel-like silurus. There was a regular fish-market apparently in Jerusalem ( kjv@2Chronicals:33:14; kjv@Nehemiah:3:3 kjv@Nehemiah:12:39; kjv@Zephaniah:1:10), as there was a fish-gate which was probably contiguous to it. Sidon is the oldest fishing establishment known in history.

Fish-hooks @ were used for catching fish kjv@Amos:4:2; comp. kjv@Isaiah:37:29; kjv@Jeremiah:16:16; kjv@Ezekiel:29:4; kjv@Job:41:1-2; kjv@Matthew:17:27).

Fish-pools @ (Cant. kjv@7:4) should be simply "pools," as in the Revised Version. The reservoirs near Heshbon (q.v.) were probably stocked with fish ( kjv@2Samuel:2:13 kjv@2Samuel:4:12; kjv@Isaiah:7:3 kjv@Isaiah:22:9-11).

Fisher @ Besides its literal sense kjv@Luke:5:2), this word is also applied by our Lord to his disciples in a figurative sense kjv@Matthew:4:19; kjv@Mark:1:17).

Fishing, the art of @ was prosecuted with great industry in the waters of Palestine. It was from the fishing-nets that Jesus called his disciples kjv@Mark:1:16-20), and it was in a fishing-boat he rebuked the winds and the waves kjv@Matthew:8:26) and delivered that remarkable series of prophecies recorded in kjv@Matthew:13. He twice miraculously fed multitudes with fish and bread kjv@Matthew:14:19 kjv@Matthew:15:36). It was in the mouth of a fish that the tribute-money was found kjv@Matthew:17:27). And he "ate a piece of broiled fish" with his disciples after his resurrection kjv@Luke:24:42-43; comp. kjv@Acts:1:3). At the Sea of Tiberias kjv@John:21:1-14), in obedience to his direction, the disciples cast their net "on the right side of the ship," and enclosed so many that "they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes." Two kinds of fishing-nets are mentioned in the New Testament:

(1.) The casting-net kjv@Matthew:4:18; kjv@Mark:1:16).

(2.) The drag-net or seine kjv@Matthew:13:48). Fish were also caught by the fishing-hook kjv@Matthew:17:27). (
See NET.)