noun · neuter
diktuem
Strong’sG1350
a fishing-net
stem diktu-12 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
δίκτυον refers to a net used for fishing 124, a general term for a net in this sense 1.
Outside the biblical text, the word is also used more broadly of a hunting-net, of lattice-work, and of the meshed bottom of a sieve, and even figuratively of being caught in a net of ruin or death 3.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Strong’s G1350 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddik'-too-on
a seine (for fishing)
Fromprobably from a primary verb δίκω (to cast);
King Jamesnet.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(δικεῖν) net:
1 fishing-net, δικτύῳ ἐξέρυσαν πολυωπῷ (i.e. ἰχθύας) Refs 8th c.BC+; δ. καθιέναι, ἀναιρεῖσθαι, Refs 4th c.BC+
2 hunting-net, Refs 5th c.BC+; larger than ἄρκυς, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 metaphorically, δ. ἄτης, Ἅιδου, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 lattice-work, Refs 3rd c.BC+
5 bottom of a sieve, Refs 5th c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | diktuem1×δίκτυον | diktueim1×δίκτυα |
| of, belonging to genitive | diktueu | diktueiu |
| to, for dative | diktue | diktuei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
diktue is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
diktuem“net”subject or objectdirect singular1×
John 21:11… kai tosoutoiu arōntoiu ouk schizita tem diktuem.… but even with so many, the net was not torn.
diktueim“nets”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Luke 5:6… plēthem ichthoiu pollem, diarrēgote de teim diktueim autoiu.… large number of fish that their nets began to tear.
diktueim7×
Matthew 4:20tois de eutheōs afiēkarantois teim diktueim akolouthala auto.And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
Matthew 4:21… Zebedaiou tou patrou autoiu katartizarōntoin teim diktueim autoiu, kai kalata autoin.… with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
Mark 1:18kai euthuos afiēkarantois teim diktueim akolouthala auto.And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
Mark 1:19… autoin en te ploie katartizarōntoin teim diktueim,… were in a boat, mending their nets.
Luke 5:2… halievois apo auteiu apobainarantois plunale teim diktueim.… left them and were washing their nets.
Luke 5:4… eis tem bathem kai chalavar teim diktueim vu eis agran.… deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
Luke 5:5… de te rēme su chalami teim diktueim.… so, I will let down the nets.”
diktuem3×
John 21:6… teim dexeim mereim teu ploieu tem diktuem, kai heuriskavi. balala oun, kai ouketi …He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the …
John 21:8… hōs apo pēchoiu diakosioi, surarōntois tem diktuem toiu ichthoiu.… the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were …
John 21:11… oun Simōnos Petros kai helkata tem diktuem eis tan gēan mestem ichthoiu megoiu …… Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large …