Fish
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
16 sections
- Appointed for Food
- Broiled
- Caught with Nets
- Caught: Hooks
- Caught: Spears
- Clean and Unclean
- Creation of
- Figurative
- Miracles Connected with of the Loaves and Fishes
- Miracles Connected With: Coin Obtained from Mouth of
- Miracles Connected With: Furnished to the Disciples by Jesus After his Resurrection
- Miracles Connected With: Great Draught of
- Miracles Connected With: Jonah Swallowed By
- Ponds for in Egypt
- Ponds for in Heshbon
- Traffic In
Appointed for Food
- Genesis 9:2–3 The fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand. …
Broiled
- John 21:9–13 When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread. …
- Luke 24:42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
Caught with Nets
- Ecclesiastes 9:12 For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Habakkuk 1:1 This is the burden that Habakkuk the prophet received in a vision:
Caught: Hooks
- Isaiah 19:8 Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
- Amos 4:2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Matthew 17:27 “But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”
Caught: Spears
- Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Clean and Unclean
- Leviticus 11:9–12 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales. …
- Deuteronomy 14:9–10 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales, …
Creation of
- Genesis 1:20–22 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” …
Figurative
- Ezekiel 47:9–10 Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish. …
Miracles Connected with of the Loaves and Fishes
- Matthew 14:19 And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- Matthew 15:36 Taking the seven loaves and the fish, He gave thanks and broke them. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
- Luke 5:6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.
- Luke 9:3–17 “Take nothing for the journey,” He told them, “no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no second tunic. …
Miracles Connected With: Coin Obtained from Mouth of
- Matthew 17:27 “But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”
Miracles Connected With: Furnished to the Disciples by Jesus After his Resurrection
- Luke 24:42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
- John 21:9–13 When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread. …
Miracles Connected With: Great Draught of
- Luke 5:4–7 When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” …
- John 21:6 He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish.
Miracles Connected With: Jonah Swallowed By
- Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
- Jonah 2:1 From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
- Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Ponds for in Egypt
- Isaiah 19:10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Ponds for in Heshbon
- Song of Solomon 7:4 Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
Traffic In
- Nehemiah 13:16 Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.
- John 21:13 Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and He did the same with the fish.
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.