Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'fish' occurs 45 times in the standard works.

13 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'fish' in the standard works and contain 28.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 29:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 47:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Jonah 1:17-2:1 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:11 (2 in 1 verse)

John 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 28 13 41
Gen. 2 1 3
Ex. 2 0 2
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Neh. 3 0 3
Job 1 1 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Eccl. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 2 1 3
Jer. 1 1 2
Ezek. 6 2 8
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 0 1 1
Jonah 4 0 4
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 1 1 2
NT 8 26 34
BM 3 0 3
DC 3 2 5
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 45 42 87

Gen. 9:2
And 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.

1 Kgs. 4:33
And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

Job 12:8
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Eccl. 9:12
For 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.

Song. 7:4
Thy 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.

Isa. 19:8
The 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.

Jer. 16:16
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezek. 38:20
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Ezek. 47:10
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Hosea 4:3
Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Amos 4:2
The 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.

Hab. 1:14
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Zeph. 1:3
I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.