Reference: Nets
Hastings
NETS were used in taking wild animals (see Hunting), and birds (see Snares); but their main use has always been in fishing. The ancient Hebrews were not fishermen, nor do they seem to have eaten much fish. There is no reference in OT to fishing in the inland waters of Palestine. The fishermen and the implements named are either Egyptian or Ph
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Can you draw out the leviathan (the crocodile) with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord?
Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with harpoons? Or his head with fishing spears?
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass over them and escape.
The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish.
The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish.
The fishermen will lament, and all who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn; and they who spread nets upon the waters will languish.
Your sons have fainted; they lie [like corpses] at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net; they are full [from drinking] of the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.
Her island in the midst of the sea shall become a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God; and she shall become a prey and a spoil to the nations.
The Lord God has sworn by His holiness that behold, the days shall come upon you when they shall take you away with hooks and the last of you with fishhooks.
[The Chaldean] brings all of them up with his hook; he catches and drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is in high spirits.
[The Chaldean] brings all of them up with his hook; he catches and drags them out with his net, he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is in high spirits. Therefore he sacrifices [offerings] to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, because from them he lives luxuriously and his food is plentiful and rich.
At once they left their nets and became His disciples [sided with His party and followed Him].
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet which was cast into the sea and gathered in fish of every sort.
Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, It is the Lord! Simon Peter, hearing him say that it was the Lord, put (girded) on his upper garment (his fisherman's coat, his outer tunic) -- "for he was stripped [for work] -- "and sprang into the sea.