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* Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon <01712> their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. | * Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon <01712> their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. | ||
: also [[1 Samuel 5]]:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and [[1 Chronicles 10]]:10 | : also [[1 Samuel 5]]:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and [[1 Chronicles 10]]:10 | ||
Dagon is an ancient Mesopotamian Assyro-Babylonian and Levantine (Canaanite) deity. He appears to have been worshipped as a fertility god in Ebla, Assyria, Ugarit and among the Amorites. The Hebrew Bible mentions him as the national god of the Philistines with temples at Ashdod and elsewhere in Gaza | |||
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01712 ^ןוגד^ Dagown \@daw-gohn’\@ from 01709; ; n pr m AV-Dagon 13; 13 Dagon= "a fish"
- 1) a Philistine deity of fertility; represented with the face and hands of a man and the tail of a fish, often seeing the famous fish hat.
- Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon <01712> their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- also 1 Samuel 5:2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 1 Chronicles 10:10
Dagon is an ancient Mesopotamian Assyro-Babylonian and Levantine (Canaanite) deity. He appears to have been worshipped as a fertility god in Ebla, Assyria, Ugarit and among the Amorites. The Hebrew Bible mentions him as the national god of the Philistines with temples at Ashdod and elsewhere in Gaza