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title: דָּגוֹן — Dagon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּגוֹן (1712), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: Dagon. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּגוֹן

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«דָּגוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Dagon** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 1712 · **BDB:** דָּגוֹן

### Glosses

Dagon (7); of.Dagon (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Dagon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1712/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1712/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 1 S 5:4 god \& idol of Philistines (cf. Assyrian Dagan, Dakan, name perhaps non-Shemitic COT Ju 16:23 DlPa 139 SayceRel. Bab. 188 f. but v. Jen infr.)—god of Ashdod, except Ju 16:23 (Gaza) \& 1 Ch 10:10 (but cf. infr.);—דגון אֱלֹהֵיהֶם Ju 16:23 cf. דגון אֱלֹהֵינוּ 1 S 5:7, בֵּית ד׳ 1 S 5:2, 5 1 Ch 10:10 (here hardly orig. cf. ‖ 1 S 31:10 \& We Dr); כֹּהֲנֵי ד׳ 1 S 5:5, מִפְתַּן ד׳ v 5; as name of image ד׳ (אֵצֶל) v 2, 3, 4, דגון נֹפֵל v 3, 4, רַק ד׳ נִשְׁאַר עָלָיו v 4 (but sense difficult; We proposes דָּגוֹ only his fish, i.e. fishy part, was left upon him, v. also Dr;—but was Dagon a fish-god? Cf. works cited above \& Scholz Götzendienst 238 ff., Baud in PRE2 iii. 460 ff., especially JenKosmol. 449 ff.). Vid. בֵּית דָּגוֹן p. 111.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּגוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1712/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 10:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.10/)

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וַיָּשִׂ֙ימוּ֙ אֶת־כֵּלָ֔יו בֵּ֖ית אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם וְאֶת־גֻּלְגָּלְתּ֥וֹ תָקְע֖וּ בֵּ֥ית דָּגֽוֹן׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.put (et) armor(s) his the.house their.gods their and (et) skull his they.fixed the.house of.Dagon

*JPS 1917:* And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

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[1 Samuel 5:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.5.2/)

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וַיִּקְח֤וּ פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֹת֖וֹ בֵּ֣ית דָּג֑וֹן וַיַּצִּ֥יגוּ אֹת֖וֹ אֵ֥צֶל דָּגֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and they.took \[the\].Philistines (et) the.ark of.(the) God and they.brought it the.house of.Dagon and they.placed it beside Dagon

*JPS 1917:* And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

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