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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Fish Spear
• Fish Gate
• Fish
Thompson Chain Reference
• Fish
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Fishes
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Fish
American Tract Society
• Fish, Fisher
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Fish
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Fishing, the Art of
• Fish-Pools
• Fish-Hooks
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Fish
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Cuttle-Fish: Persons Who Resemble a
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Fish, Fishing
• Fish Gate
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Fish
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Fish, Fisher, Fishing
• Draught of Fishes
King James Dictionary
• Fishing
• Fish
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Fish, Fishers, Fishing
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Parable of the Fishing Net
• Loaves and Fishes
• Fishing Net, Parable of the
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Fish
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Fish
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Fish, Fisher, Fisherman
• Fish
Wilson's Bible Types
• Fish Ate
• Fish
Webster Dictionary
• Tobias Fish
• Suleah Fish
• Spilliard Fishing
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Fish
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Cat-Fish
• Coal-Fish
• Cuttle-Fish
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Fish
• Fish Gate
• Fishing
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Fish
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Fish
• Fish in Christian Symbolism.
• Fish, Henry Clay, D.D.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Angel-Fish
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Symbolism of the Fish
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Fish and Fishing
Lexicons
• ܒ݁ܰܠܽܘܥܳܐ
• ܢܽܘܢܳܐ
• ἁλιεύω
• ἰχθύδιον
• ἰχθύς
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• דָּאג , דָּג
• דָּגָה
• דוּגָּה
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The figure of a fish has been used from the very earliest days as a symbol in the Christian Church. Among the early Christians it was used as a secret sign by which they knew one another in the days of persecution. The significance of the fish as a Christian symbol is set forth under EMBLEMS (which see).