Lexical Summary Dagon: a god and an idol of the Philistines Original Word: דָּגוֹןTransliteration: Dagon Phonetic Spelling: (daw-gohn') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: a god and an idol of the Philistines Meaning: Dagon -- a god and an idol of the Philistines Strong's Concordance Dagon From dag; the fish-god; Dagon, a Philistine deity -- Dagon. see HEBREW dag Brown-Driver-Briggs H1712. Dagon דָּגוֺן proper name, masculine: 1 Samuel 5:4 god & idol of Philistines (compare Assyrian Dagan, Dakan(nu), name perhaps non-Shemitic COT Judges 16:23 DlPa 139 SayceRel. Babylonian 188 f. but see Jen below) **oldest tradition (Jerome) seems to waver between דָּג fish and דָּגָן grain, as explanation of דָּגוֺן, see בית. — god of Ashdod, except 16:23 (Gaza) & 1 Chronicles 10:10 (but compare below); — אֱלֹהֵיהֶם דגון Judges 16:23 compare אֱלֹהֵינוּ דגון 1 Samuel 5:7, ד ׳בֵּית5:2, 5; 1 Chronicles 10:10 (here hardly original compare "" 1 Samuel 31:10 & We Dr); ד ׳כֹּהֲנֵי 5:5, ד ׳מִפְתַּן 5:5; as name of image ד ׳(אֵצֶל) 5:2; 5:3; 5:4, נֹפֵל דגון 5:3; 5:4, ד ׳רַק עָלָיו נִשְׁאַר 5:4 (but sense difficult; We proposes דָּגוֺ only his fish, i.e. fishy part, was left upon him, see also Dr; — but was Dagon a fish-god ? compare works cited above & ScholzG-tzendienst 238 ff., Baud in PRE2iii. 460 ff. especially JenKosmol. 449 ff.) see דָּגוֺן בֵּית p. III. |
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