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Notes: One may argue that the meaning of προσφάγιον in RV JHN 21:5 · LV JHN 21:5 · Read together JHN 21:5 is relish, and that it is only the specialized context which makes possible the reference to fish. On the other hand, one may also argue that, as in the case of ὀψάριον (5.16: ὀψάριον), the term προσφάγιον has undergone a specialization of meaning, so that it no longer refers to any type of relish eaten with bread, but has the more specific meaning of fish as food.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: προσφάγιον; -ου

Related lemmas: φάγος

Sense 1: fish

Semantic entry: 5.17

Semantic domains: Foods and Condiments

Subdomains: Food

Definition: the flesh of fish as food{N:001}

Notes: In literature outside the NT, προσφάγιον normally refers to some type of relish eaten with bread, but in RV JHN 21:5 · LV JHN 21:5 · Read together JHN 21:5 (the only occurrence in the NT) the reference is to the flesh of fish.

Further resources: fauna:5.1

JHN 21:5: RV JHN 21:5 · LV JHN 21:5 · Read together JHN 21:5

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OET-RV JHN 21:5

5 He called out, “Hey, young fellas. Don’t you have any fish?”
¶ “None.” they answered.

OET-LV JHN 21:5

5 therefore Yaʸsous is _saying to _them:
Little _children, you _all _are_ not _having any fish?
They _answered to _him:
No.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

προσφάγιον

Form 1

Sense 1: fish