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Gematria of Fish

5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “fish” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 790 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

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Hebrew equivalents
5
Occurrences
790
Distinct values
5

The 5 Hebrew words rendered “fish”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

נֶפֶשׁnephesh×754 in the TanakhH5315

properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)

Standard 430 →Gadol 430Katan 16Siduri (ordinal) 52Atbash 17Perati 98,900Milui 547

First appearance ·Genesis 1:20בראשית א:כנֶפֶשׁ

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דָּגdâg×19 in the TanakhH1709

a fish (often used collectively)

Standard 7 →Gadol 7Katan 7Siduri (ordinal) 7Atbash 300Perati 25Milui 517

First appearance ·Genesis 9:2בראשית ט:בדְּגֵי

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דָּגָהdâgâh×15 in the TanakhH1710

{a fish (often used collectively)}

Standard 12 →Gadol 12Katan 12Siduri (ordinal) 12Atbash 390Perati 50Milui 523

First appearance ·Genesis 1:26בראשית א:כובִדְגַת

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דּוּגָהdûwgâh×1 in the TanakhH1729

properly, fishery, i.e. a hook forfishing

Standard 18 →Gadol 18Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 18Atbash 470Perati 86Milui 536

First appearance ·Amos 4:2עמוס ד:בדּוּגָֽה

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דִּיגdîyg×1 in the TanakhH1770

to fish

Standard 17 →Gadol 17Katan 8Siduri (ordinal) 17Atbash 340Perati 125Milui 537

First appearance ·Jeremiah 16:16ירמיהו טז:טזוְדִיגוּם

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Quick answers

What is the gematria of fish?

The Tanakh renders “fish” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: נפש = 430, דג = 7, דגה = 12, and 2 more.

How do you say fish in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “fish”; the most frequent are נפש (nephesh), 754 times; דג (dâg), 19 times; דגה (dâgâh), 15 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.