Dagon Definition

dāgŏn
noun
The chief god of the ancient Philistines and later of the Phoenicians, sometimes represented as half man and half fish.
Webster's New World

(obsolete) A slip or piece.

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pronoun

The main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.

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Origin of Dagon

  • Hebrew dāgôn of Phoenician origin dgn in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See dag a loose end.

    From Wiktionary

  • Hebrew

    From Wiktionary

Dagon Sentence Examples

  • The name Dagon seems to come from ddg " fish," and that his idol was half-man half-fish is possible from the ichthyomorphic representations found upon coins of Ascalon and Arvad, and from the fact that Berossus speaks of an Assyrian merman-god.

  • Despite the capture of the ark after the disastrous battle of Shiloh, Yahweh had in the end shown himself through a destructive plague superior in might to the Philistine Dagon.

  • The fugitives took sanctuary in the temple of Dagon at Azotus.

  • She is everywhere the great female principle, answering to the Baal of the Canaanites and Phoenicians 2 and to the Dagon of the Philistines.

  • The trophy was set up in the Philistine temple of Ashdod, but vindicated its superiority by overthrowing the god Dagon.

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Words Starting With

DDADAG

Words Ending With

NONGON

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