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Topic:
Dagon
With respect to the word "Dagon…"
Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national
god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol had the body of a fish
with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylonian deity,
the worship of which was introduced among the Philistines through
Chaldea. The most famous of the temples of Dagon were at Gaza (Judg.
16:23-30) and Ashdod (1 Sam. 5:1-7).
Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries
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