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Strong's #1712: Dagown (pronounced daw-gohn')

from 1709; the fish-god; Dagon, a Philistine deity:--Dagon.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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dâgôn

Dagon = "a fish"

1) a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H1709



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Judges 16:23: "for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god"
1 Samuel 5:2: "of God, they brought of Dagon, and set it by Dagon."
1 Samuel 5:2: "of Dagon, and set it by Dagon."
1 Samuel 5:3: "arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen to the earth"
1 Samuel 5:3: "the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place"
1 Samuel 5:4: "on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen to the ground"
1 Samuel 5:4: "before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands"
1 Samuel 5:4: "were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to"
1 Samuel 5:5: "Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come"
1 Samuel 5:5: "the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on"
1 Samuel 5:5: "house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this"
1 Samuel 5:7: "is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god."
1 Chronicles 10:10: "and fastened in the temple of Dagon."









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