Fishes
44 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
29 sections
- (Bad) of Mere Professors
- (Good) of Saints
- Cannot Live Without Water
- Catching of, a Trade
- Created by God
- Different in Flesh from Beasts
- Distinction Between Clean and Unclean
- Inhabit: Ponds
- Inhabit: Rivers
- Inhabit: Seas
- Leviathan
- Made for God's Glory
- Man Given Dominion Over
- Man Permitted to Eat
- Miracles Connected With: Dressed on the Shore
- Miracles Connected With: Immense Draughts of
- Miracles Connected With: Multiplying a Few
- Miracles Connected With: Procuring Tribute Money From
- Mode of Cooking Alluded To
- No Likeness of, to be Made for Worship
- Number and Variety of
- Sold Near the Fish Gate at Jerusalem
- Solomon Wrote the History of
- Taken With: Hooks
- Taken With: Nets
- Taken With: Often Suffered for Man's Sin
- Taken With: Spears
- The People of Tyre Traded In
- Whale
(Bad) of Mere Professors
- Matthew 13:48–49 When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away. …
(Good) of Saints
- Matthew 13:48–49 When it was full, the men pulled it ashore. Then they sat down and sorted the good fish into containers, but threw the bad away. …
Cannot Live Without Water
- Isaiah 50:2 Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish …
Catching of, a Trade
- Matthew 4:18 As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
- Luke 5:2 He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
Created by God
- Genesis 1:20–21 And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.” …
- Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Different in Flesh from Beasts
- 1 Corinthians 15:39 Not all flesh is the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another.
Distinction Between 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, …
Inhabit: Ponds
- 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.
- Isaiah 19:10 The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
Inhabit: Rivers
- Exodus 7:18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink its water.’”
- Ezekiel 29:5 I will leave you in the desert, you and all the fish of your streams. You will fall on the open field and will not be taken away or gathered for burial. I have given you as food to the beasts of the earth and the birds of the air.
Inhabit: Seas
- Numbers 11:22 If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
- Ezekiel 47:10 Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
Leviathan
- Job 41:1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
- Psalm 74:14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert.
Made for God's Glory
- Job 12:8–9 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; let the fish of the sea inform you. …
- Psalm 69:34 Let heaven and earth praise Him, the seas and everything that moves in them.
Man Given Dominion Over
- Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- Psalm 8:8 the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Man Permitted to Eat
- 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. …
Miracles Connected With: Dressed on the Shore
- John 21:9 When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
Miracles Connected With: Immense Draughts of
- Luke 5:6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.
- Luke 5:9 For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,
- 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.
- John 21:11 So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.
Miracles Connected With: Multiplying a Few
- Matthew 14:17–21 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. …
- Matthew 15:34 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”
Miracles Connected With: Procuring Tribute Money From
- 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.”
Mode of Cooking Alluded To
- Luke 24:42 So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish,
- John 21:9 When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
No Likeness of, to be Made for Worship
- Exodus 20:4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Deuteronomy 4:18 or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
Number and Variety of
- Psalm 104:25 Here is the sea, vast and wide, teeming with creatures beyond number, living things both great and small.
Sold Near the Fish Gate at Jerusalem
- 2 Chronicles 33:14 After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed …
- Zephaniah 1:10 On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.
Solomon Wrote the History of
- 1 Kings 4:33 He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.
Taken With: Hooks
- 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.”
Taken With: Nets
- Luke 5:4–6 When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.” …
- John 21:6–8 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. …
Taken With: Often Suffered for Man's Sin
- Exodus 7:21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 38:20 The fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, every creature that crawls upon the ground, and all mankind on the face of the earth will tremble at My presence. The mountains will be thrown down, the cliffs …
Taken With: Spears
- Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
The People of Tyre Traded 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.
Whale
- Genesis 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every winged bird after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
- 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.
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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.