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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, , [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.
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:26 -

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [fn]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - 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 [fn]sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:2 - “And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the [fn]sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:18 - “And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will [fn]become foul, and the Egyptians will be weary of drinking water from the Nile.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - And the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile [fn]became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:5 - “We remember the fish which we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:18 - the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:16 - Also men of Tyre were living [fn]there who brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise, and sold them to the sons of Judah on the sabbath, even in Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:8 -

“Or muse to the earth, and let it instruct you;

And let the fish of the sea recount it to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:8 -

The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,

Whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:29 -

He turned their waters into blood

And caused their fish to die.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish seized in an evil net and birds seized in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:2 -

“Why was there no man when I came?

When I called, why was there none to answer?

Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?

Or have I no power to deliver?

Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke;

I make the rivers a wilderness;

Their fish stink for lack of water

And die of thirst.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:4 -

“I will put hooks in your jaws

And make the fish of your canals of the Nile cling to your scales.

And I will bring you up out of the midst of your canals of the Nile,

And all the fish of your canals of the Nile will cling to your scales.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:5 -

“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your canals of the Nile;

You will fall on the [fn]open field; you will not be brought together or [fn]gathered.

I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:20 - “And the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the beasts of the field, all the creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the men who are on the face of the earth will quake at My presence; the mountains also will be pulled down, the steep pathways will fall, and every wall will fall to the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:9 - “And it will be that every living creature, which swarms in every place where the [fn]river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the other waters [fn]are healed; so everything will live where the river goes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:10 - “And it will be that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 4:3 -

Therefore the land mourns,

And everyone who inhabits it languishes

Along with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky,

And also the fish of the sea [fn]disappear.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:14 -

And You have made men like the fish of the sea,

Like creeping things without a ruler over them.

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:3 -

“I will end man and beast;

I will end the birds of the sky

And the fish of the sea

And the [fn]ruins along with the wicked;

And I will cut off man from the face of the ground,” declares Yahweh.

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