Word

דָּגוֹן

Dâgôwn · H1712 · Hebrew · proper noun · 13 occurrences

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Person

Dagonfirst named in Judges 16:237 verses

Meanings

Dagon

A deity worshiped by the Philistines

Examples
Judges 16:23 Now the governors of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to celebrate, for they said, “Our god has handed Samson our enemy over to us.”
1 Samuel 5:2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:3 When the Ashdodites got up early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֱלֹהִיםGod, gods 2

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 2 groups

נָפַלto fall 2
שָׁאַרto remain 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לָקַחto take, to receive 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵצֶלbeside 2
לto/for 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 3
כֹּהֵןpriest 1
מִפְתָּןthreshold 1
רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Deities003001004: Dagon names the chief god of the Philistines, whose idol fell before the ark of the covenant in the temple at Ashdod.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1712. Dagon דָּגוֺן proper name, masculine: 1Sa 5:4 god & idol of Philistines (compare…

H1712. Dagon
דָּגוֺן proper name, masculine: 1Sa 5:4 god & idol of Philistines (compare Assyrian Dagan, Dakan(nu), name perhaps non-Shemitic COT Jdg 16:23 DlPa 139 SayceRel. Babylonian 188 f. but see Jen below) **oldest tradition (Jerome) seems to waver between דָּג fish and דָּגָן grain, as explanation of דָּגוֺן, see בית. — god of Ashdod, except Jdg 16:23 (Gaza) & 1Ch 10:10 (but compare below); — אֱלֹהֵיהֶם דגון Jdg 16:23 compare אֱלֹהֵינוּ דגון 1Sa 5:7, ד ׳בֵּית1Sa 5:2, 1Sa 5:5; 1Ch 10:10 (here hardly original compare || 1Sa 31:10 & We Dr); ד ׳כֹּהֲנֵי 1Sa 5:5, ד ׳מִפְתַּן 1Sa 5:5; as name of image ד ׳(אֵצֶל) 1Sa 5:2; 1Sa 5:3; 1Sa 5:4, נֹפֵל דגון 1Sa 5:3; 1Sa 5:4, ד ׳רַק עָלָיו נִשְׁאַר 1Sa 5:4 (but sense difficult; We proposes דָּגוֺ only his fish, i.e. fishy part, was left upon him, see also Dr; — but was Dagon a fish-god ? compare works cited above & ScholzG-tzendienst 238 ff., Baud in PRE2iii. 460 ff. especially JenKosmol. 449 ff.) see דָּגוֺן בֵּית p. III.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Deities13 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0