Dagon
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Meaning: little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Jdg 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 (Jdg 16:23ff) and Ashdod (1Sam 5:1ff).
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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