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Net:

in use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. The fishing-net was probably constructed after the form of that used by the Egyptians (Isa 19:8). There were three kinds of nets. (1.) The drag-net or hauling-net (Gr. sagene), of great size, and requiring many men to work it. It was usually let down from the fishing-boat, and then drawn to the shore or into the boat, as circumstances might require (Mat 13:47,48). (2.) The hand-net or casting-net (Gr. amphiblestron), which was thrown from a rock or a boat at any fish that might be seen (Mat 4:18; Mar 1:16). It was called by the Latins funda. It was of circular form, "like the top of a tent." (3.) The bag-net (Gr. diktyon), used for enclosing fish in deep water (Luk 5:4-9).

The fowling-nets were (1) the trap, consisting of a net spread over a frame, and supported by a stick in such a way that it fell with the slightest touch (Amo 3:5, "gin; Psa 69:22; Job 18:9; Ecc 9:12). (2) The snare, consisting of a cord to catch birds by the leg (Job 18:10; Psa 18:5; 116:3; 140:5). (3.) The decoy, a cage filled with birds as decoys (Jer 5:26,27). Hunting-nets were much in use among the Hebrews.

Net:

See FISHING

See FOWLER

Net: Of Checker Work

1Ki 7:17

Net: Hidden in a Pit

Psa 35:7, 8

Net: Set For

Birds,

Pro 1:17;

wild animals,

Isa 51:20.

Net: Fish Caught In

Mat 4:18-21; 13:47; Luk 5:4; Jhn 21:6-11

Net: Reference Concerning

See SNARE

Net: Figurative:

Job 18:8; 19:6; Psa 9:15; 10:9; 25:15; 31:4; 35:7, 8; 57:6; 66:11; 140:5; 141:10; Pro 12:12; 29:5; Ecc 7:26; 9:12; Isa 19:8; Eze 26:5, 14; 47:10; Hsa 7:12

Net:

lit., "something thrown around" (amphi, "around," ballo, "to throw"), denotes "a casting net," a somewhat small "net," cast over the shoulder, spreading out in a circle and made to sink by weights, Mat 4:18 (in some mss. in Mar 1:16: the best have the verb amphiballo alone).

Net:

a general term for a "net" (from an old verb diko, "to cast:" akin to diskos, "a quoit"), occurs in Mat 4:20, 21; Mar 1:18, 19; Luk 5:2, 4-6; Jhn 21:6, 8, 11 (twice). In the Sept. it was used for a "net" for catching birds, Pro 1:17, in other ways, e.g., figuratively of a snare, Job 18:8; Pro 29:5.

Net:

denotes "a drag-net a seine;" two modes were employed with this, either by its being let down into the water and drawn together in a narrowing circle, and then into the boat, or as a semicircle drawn to the shore, Mat 13:47, where Nos. 1 and 2 would not have suited so well. The Greek historian Herodotus used the corresponding verb sageneuo of a device by which the Persians are said to have cleared a conquered island of its inhabitants.

Net:

SEE [FISH].