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Dagon

A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

Dagon The god of the Philistines (Judg. 16: 23 ff.; 1 Sam. 5: 2 ff.), and also of various Mesopotamian countries. According to 1 Sam. 5: 2–7 the effect of the Ark of Yahweh being captured and placed provocatively in the temple at Ashdod was first to make the idol fall and then to shatter it in pieces.

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Dagon

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | Copyright

Dagon in the Bible, a national deity of the ancient Philistines, represented as a fish-tailed man. The name comes via Latin and Greek from Hebrew dāḡōn, perhaps from dāḡān ‘corn’, but said (according to folk etymology) to be from dāḡ ‘fish’.

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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Dagon." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Dagon

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Dagon, the national deity of the ancient Philistines, represented as half man, half fish (Judg. 16: 23; 1 Sam, 5: 1–5; Milton, Paradise Lost, I. 462 and Samson Agonistes).

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Dagon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 25 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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Dagon

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Dagon , god of fertility, widely worshiped in the Middle East, particularly in Canaan. In the Bible he is mentioned as one of the chief deities of the Philistines.

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Dagon

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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