A net with small and large mesh layers, held by floats and weights, used to catch fish by trapping them in the water.
About Fishnet
The trammel net was actually two or three nets combined in layers, usually a small-mesh inner net sandwiched between two nets of looser mesh.
Key References
And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
All Scripture References (17)
Job (1)
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
Psalms (1)
You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.
Ecclesiastes (2)
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Ezekiel (2)
But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.
I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.
Matthew (2)
And at once they left their nets and followed Him.
Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
Mark (2)
Luke (4)
He saw two boats at the edge of the lake. The fishermen had left them and were washing their nets.
When Jesus had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”
“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”
When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.
John (3)
He told them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish.
The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards.
So Simon Peter went aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many, the net was not torn.