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Da⋅gon

  [dey-gon]
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–noun
a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.
Origin:
< L < Gk < Heb dāghōn
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Da·gon   (dā'gŏn')   
n.   Mythology
The chief god of the ancient Philistines, represented as half-man and half-fish.

[Hebrew dāgôn, of Phoenician origin; see dgn in Semitic roots.]
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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). (See FISH.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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