דגה
Hebrew
Etymology
| Root |
|---|
| ד־ג (d-g) |
| 2 terms |
Compare דָּג (“fish”).
Pronunciation
- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /daːˈɡaː/
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /dɔˈɡɔ/, [dɔːˈʁɔː]
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /daˈɡa/
Noun
דָּגָה • (dagá) f (no plural forms, singular construct דְּגַת־)
- (uncountable, collective) fish
- Tanach, Genesis 1:26, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים נַעֲשֶׂה אָדָם בְּצַלְמֵנוּ כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ וְיִרְדּוּ בִדְגַת הַיָּם וּבְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה וּבְכׇל־הָאָרֶץ וּבְכׇל־הָרֶמֶשׂ הָרֹמֵשׂ עַל־הָאָרֶץ׃
- And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. They shall rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the cattle, the whole earth, and all the creeping things that creep on earth.”
Declension
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | דָּגָה | first | דְּגָתִי | דְּגָתֵנוּ | ||
| definite | הַדָּגָה | second | דְּגָתְךָ | דְּגָתֵךְ | דְּגַתְכֶם | דְּגַתְכֶן | |
| construct | דְּגַת־ | third | דְּגָתוֹ | דְּגָתָהּ | דְּגָתָם | דְּגָתָן | |
Related terms
- דָּג (dág)
References
- H1710 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “דָּגָה”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 114c
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 279b