Dagon דָּגוֹן
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| דָּגוֹן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | dagon |
| Strong's number | H1712 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | title |
| Gloss | Dagon |
| Occurrences | 13 in 7 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Samuel (5) |
Dagon (Hebrew דָּגוֹן, Strong's H1712) is a title in the Old Testament, glossed “Dagon”. It occurs 13 times.
Definition
§ Dagon = "a fish"
a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish
a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | dagon (12), dagon's (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | dagon (7), was dagon (2) |
Verses
Every verse with Dagon, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 16:23Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 5:2When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
- 1 Samuel 5:3And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.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 5:4And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.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 5:5Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.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.
- 1 Samuel 5:7And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 10:10And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).