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Dagon

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Da·gon  (dgn)
n. Mythology
The chief god of the ancient Philistines, represented as half-man and half-fish.
[Hebrew dgôn, of Phoenician origin; see dgn in Semitic roots.]
Dagon [ˈdeɪgɒn]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) Bible a god worshipped by the Philistines, represented as half man and half fish
[via Latin and Greek from Hebrew Dāgōn, literally: little fish]
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Noun1.Dagon - god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines
Philistia - an ancient region on the coast of southwestern Palestine that was strategically located on a trade route between Syria and Egypt; important in biblical times
Phenicia, Phoenicia - an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean


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In fact, placed before the strict and piercing truth, this whole story will fare like that fish, flesh, and fowl idol of the Philistines, Dagon by name; who being planted before the ark of Israel, his horse's head and both the palms of his hands fell off from him, and only the stump or fishy part of him remained.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Casaubon's entirely new view of the Philistine god Dagon and other fish-deities, thinking that hereafter she should see this subject which touched him so nearly from the same high ground whence doubtless it had become so important to him.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
Next came one Who mourn'd in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim'd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham'd his Worshipers: DAGON his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear'd in AZOTUS, dreaded through the Coast Of PALESTINE, in GATH and ASCALON, And ACCARON and GAZA's frontier bounds.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
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