STRONGS NUMBER H1712

H1712. Dagon

דָּגוֺן‎ proper name, masculine: 1 Samuel 5:4 god & idol of Philistines (compare Assyrian Dagan, Dakan(nu), name perhaps non-Shemitic COT Judges 16:23 Dl^{Pa 139} Sayce^Rel. 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 16:23 (Gaza) & 1 Chronicles 10:10 (but compare below); — אֱלֹהֵיהֶם דגון‎ Judges 16:23 compare אֱלֹהֵינוּ דגון‎ 1 Samuel 5:7, ד ׳בֵּית‎5:2, 5; 1 Chronicles 10:10 (here hardly original compare "" 1 Samuel 31:10 & We Dr); ד ׳כֹּהֲנֵי‎ 5:5, ד ׳מִפְתַּן‎ 5:5; as name of image ד ׳(אֵצֶל)‎ 5:2; 5:3; 5:4, נֹפֵל דגון‎ 5:3; 5:4, ד ׳רַק עָלָיו נִשְׁאַר‎ 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 & Scholz^{G-tzendienst 238 ff.}, Baud in PRE^{2iii. 460 ff.} especially Jen^{Kosmol. 449 ff.}) see דָּגוֺן בֵּית‎ p. III.