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Dagon

דגון, _corn_, from דגן, or דג, _a fish_, god of the Philistines. It is the opinion of some that Dagon was represented like a woman, with the lower parts of a fish, like a triton or syren. Dagon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “corn; a fish.” This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance

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Name meaning
corn; a fish According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Dagon

corn; a fish

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

DAGON

דגון, _corn_, from דגן, or דג, _a fish_, god of the Philistines. It is the opinion of some that Dagon was represented like a woman, with the lower parts of a fish, like a triton or syren. Scripture shows clearly that the statue of Dagon was human, at least, the upper part of it, 1 Sam.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Dagon

Meaning:
corn; a fish

Indexed occurrences: 0

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