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Dagon
Da′gon
(dā′gŏn)
, [Heb.
Dāgon
, fr. dag
a fish: cf. Gr. Δαγών
.] The national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish.
W. Smith.
This day a solemn feast the people hold
To
To
Dagon
, their sea idol. Milton.
They brought it into the house of
Dagon
. 1 Sam. v. 2.
Definition 2024
Dagon
Dagon
English
Proper noun
Dagon
- The main god of the Phoenicians, represented as half man and half fish.
- Bible, 1 Sam. v. 2
- They brought it into the house of Dagon.
- John Milton
- This day a solemn feast the people hold / To Dagon, their sea idol.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
- Bible, 1 Sam. v. 2