דגה

Hebrew

דגת הים

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־)

1. (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

Declension of דָּגָה

	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