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Lexicon :: Strong's G2486 - ichthys

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ἰχθύς
Transliteration
ichthys (Key)
Pronunciation
ikh-thoos'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain affinity
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Strong’s Definitions

ἰχθύς ichthýs, ikh-thoos'; of uncertain affinity; a fish:—fish.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x

The KJV translates Strong's G2486 in the following manner: fish (20x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 20x
The KJV translates Strong's G2486 in the following manner: fish (20x).

  1. a fish

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἰχθύς ichthýs, ikh-thoos'; of uncertain affinity; a fish:—fish.
STRONGS G2486:
ἰχθύς, -ύος, ὁ, [from Homer down], a fish: Matthew 7:10; Mark 6:38; Luke 5:6; John 21:11, etc.; 1 Corinthians 15:39.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
7:10
Mark
6:38
Luke
5:6
John
21:11
1 Corinthians
15:39

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2486 matches the Greek ἰχθύς (ichthys),
which occurs 24 times in 22 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 - Then God said, “Let us make man[fn] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:5 - We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. He spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of reptiles, and of fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:16 - Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:8 - or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you;[fn]
and the fish of the sea will declare to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:8 - the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,
whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:29

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:29 - He turned their waters into blood
and caused their fish to die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For man does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 - Why, when I came, was there no man;
why, when I called, was there no one to answer?
Is my hand shortened, that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, by my rebuke I dry up the sea,
I make the rivers a desert;
their fish stink for lack of water
and die of thirst.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 - I will put hooks in your jaws,
and make the fish of your streams stick to your scales;
and I will draw you up out of the midst of your streams,
with all the fish of your streams
that stick to your scales.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 - And I will cast you out into the wilderness,
you and all the fish of your streams;
you shall fall on the open field,
and not be brought together or gathered.
To the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens
I give you as food.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - And wherever the river goes,[fn] every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea[fn] may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:10 - Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 - Therefore the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
and even the fish of the sea are taken away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 - You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 - “I will sweep away man and beast;
I will sweep away the birds of the heavens
and the fish of the sea,
and the rubble[fn] with the wicked.
I will cut off mankind
from the face of the earth,” declares the LORD.
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