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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that thy companions may hew him in pieces, to be parted among the merchant men? Canst thou fill the net with his skin, or the fish panner with his head?
Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together, and let me ever escape them.
The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.
The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.
The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.
Thy sons lie comfortless at the head of every street like a taken venison, and are full of the terrible wrath of the LORD, and punishment of thy God.
Yea, as the drying place, where the fishers hang up their nets by the seaside. Even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God. The Gentiles shall spoil her:
Therefore the LORD hath sworn by his holiness, 'The days shall come upon you, that ye shall be lift up upon spears, and your posterity carried away upon fish hooks.
They take up all with their angle, they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn: whereof they rejoice and are glad.
They take up all with their angle, they catch it in their net, and gather it in their yarn: whereof they rejoice and are glad. Therefore offer they unto their net, and do sacrifice unto their yarn: because that through it their portions is become so fat, and their meat so plenteous.
And they straightaway left their nets, and followed him.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net cast into the sea, that gathereth of all kinds:
Then said the disciple whom Jesus loved unto Peter, "It is the Lord." When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girded his mantle to him, for he was naked, and sprang into the sea.