What Means The Fish Symbol?
The fish symbol is seen on bumper sticker, business cards, hats T-shirts, and so on. To many people it has almost become as much a symbol of Christianity as the cross. Sometimes, as in our background, it contains several Greek letters. What does the fish symbol mean? What are the Greek letters and what do they mean? The fish symbol is called ICHTHUS, pronounced: ikh-thoos, and means fish in Greek. The Greek letters contained in the symbol spell the word ICHTHUS in Greek. The five Greek letters are: Iota, Chi, Theta, Upsilon, Sigma. To the early Christians these letters stood for five words confessing our “Lord, Jesus Christ God’s Son Savior”. While some believe the Greek letters stand for the English word JESUS such is not the case. It is not known when the fish symbol was first used to refer to Jesus Christ as God’s Son and our Savior but it was well establish by the last half of the second century. By this time the fish symbol was appearing on sarcophagi, rings, seals, and catacombs
