Nave’s Topical Bible
Fish
29 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Creation of
- Appointed for food
- Clean and unclean
- Caught
- With nets
- Hooks
- Spears
- Ponds for
- In Heshbon
- In Egypt
- Traffic in
- Broiled
- Miracles connected with
- Jonah swallowed by
- Of the loaves and fishes
- Coin obtained from mouth of
- Great draught of
- Furnished to the disciples by Jesus after his resurrection
- FIGURATIVE
Bible verses about “Fish”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 1:21And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
- Genesis 1:22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- Genesis 9:2And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
- Genesis 9:3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
- Leviticus 11:9These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
- Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 11:11They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
- Leviticus 11:12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Deuteronomy 14:9These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
- Deuteronomy 14:10And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
- Isaiah 19:8The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
- Amos 4:2The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
- Matthew 17:27Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
- Job 41:7Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
- Song of Songs 7:4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath–rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- Isaiah 19:10And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.
- Nehemiah 13:16There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
- John 21:13Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
- John 21:9As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
- John 21:10Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
- John 21:11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
- John 21:12Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
- Luke 24:42And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
- Jonah 1:17Now the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
- Matthew 12:40For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
- Matthew 14:19And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matthew 15:36And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Luke 5:6And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
- Luke 9:3And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.
- Luke 9:4And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.
- Luke 9:5And whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off the very dust from your feet for a testimony against them.
- Luke 9:6And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.
- Luke 9:7Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;
- Luke 9:8And of some, that Elias had appeared; and of others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.
- Luke 9:9And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
- Luke 9:10And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.
- Luke 9:11And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
- Luke 9:12And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.