(, davvag’, Jer 16:16 [marg.]; Eze 47:10; or , dayyag’, Isa 19:8; Jer 16:16 [text]; Gr. , seaman or sailor, hence fisherman, as rendered Luk 5:2), a term used, besides its literal import [SEE FISHING, above], in the phrase “fishers of men” (Mat 19:1; Mark i, 17), as applied by our Saviour to the apostles (q.v.) in calling them to their office; and in a like typical manner, but in an unfavorable sense, the word occurs Jer 16:16. The application of the figure is obvious (see Wemyss, Symbolical Dict. s.v.). On the “fisher’s coat” (, Joh 21:7), SEE COAT.<\/p>\n
Besides its literal sense (Luke 5:2<\/span>), this word is also applied by our Lord to his disciples in a figurative sense (Matt. 4:19<\/span>; Mark 1:17<\/span>).<\/p>\n Fisher (, davvag’, Jer 16:16 [marg.]; Eze 47:10; or , dayyag’, Isa 19:8; Jer 16:16 [text]; Gr. , seaman or sailor, hence fisherman, as rendered Luk 5:2), a term used, besides its literal import [SEE FISHING, above], in the phrase “fishers of men” (Mat 19:1; Mark i, 17), as applied by our Saviour to the … Continue reading “Fisher”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"