Fish
Aquatic creatures that feature prominently in both Old and New Testament narratives. God created sea creatures on the fifth day (Genesis 1:20-21). Jonah was swallowed by a great fish (Jonah 1:17). Jesus multiplied loaves and fish to feed thousands (Matthew 14:17-21, 15:34-38). He called fishermen as disciples and promised to make them 'fishers of men' (Matthew 4:19). The risen Christ prepared a breakfast of fish for his disciples (John 21:9-13). The miraculous catch of fish symbolized the abundant harvest of the gospel mission (Luke 5:1-11, John 21:1-14). The fish symbol (ichthys) became an early Christian identifier, as the Greek word forms an acronym for 'Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior.'
Verses about Fish
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Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, an…
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Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of t…
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Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth,…
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Exodus 7:18
And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.
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Exodus 7:21
And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throug…
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Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
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Numbers 11:22
Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?
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Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
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1 Kings 4:33
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fo…
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2 Chronicles 33:14
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and com…
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Nehemiah 3:3
But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars the…
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Nehemiah 12:39
And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the …
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Nehemiah 13:16
There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusale…
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Job 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
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Psalms 8:8
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
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Psalms 105:29
He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
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Ecclesiastes 9:12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men…
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Isaiah 19:10
And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
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Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no p…