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HebrewH1712Noun

דָּגוֹן

da.gon

7Occurrences
H1712Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Dagon, a Philistine deity

from H1709 (דָּג); the fish-god;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Dagon = "a fish" a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N-M-T

Full Description

N:N-M-T

Occurrences

דָּגוֹן appears 7 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
5
1 Chronicles
1
Judges
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 10:10BSB

They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

1 Samuel 5:2BSB

carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

1 Samuel 5:3BSB

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

1 Samuel 5:4BSB

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.

1 Samuel 5:5BSB

That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.