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Origin of the name DAGON.
Etymology of the
name DAGON.
Meaning of the baby name DAGON.
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DAGON (דגון).
Biblical. [Hebrew Daghon = "great fish"].
This is the Hebrew form of the Assyrian Dakan,
which see.
(An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
The
patron "god" of the Philistine town of Ashdod (Azotus), where he
had a great temple. He had others at Gaza and elsewhere (Judg. xvi.
23; 1 Sam. v. 1-7; 1 Chron. x. 10). [Samson.]
Simon Maccabæus, after defeating the Philistines, drove them into the
temple of Dagon in Ashdod, then setting fire both to the city and the
temple (1 Macc. x. 84; xi. 4). The idol is considered to have had
the head, arms, and upper parts of human form, while the lower parts
tapered away into the tail of a fish. Diodorus Siculus (ii. 4)
mentions an idol, called Dercetus, of similar form as having existed at
Ashkelon, another Philistine town. (The Sunday School
Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894)
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