Word Study · Strong's H1712 · Hebrew
דָּגוֹן
Dagon
daw-gohn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Dâgôwn
“Dagon, a Philistine deity”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Dagon, a Philistine deity
Rendered in the KJV as
Dagon.
- 13occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 11inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 13 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 11
- דָג֗וֹן2
- דָּג֖וֹן2
- דָג֜וֹן1
- דָּג֑וֹן1
- דָּג֔וֹן1
- דָּג֜וֹן1
- דָּג֛וֹן1
- דָּג֥וֹן1
- דָּגֽוֹן׃1
- דָּגֽוֹן׃ ס1
- לְדָג֥וֹן1
How it is rendered · 2
- Dagon12
- to Dagon1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- proper noun (a name)12
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1
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- HNpt · 12
- HR/Npt · 1
All 13, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
1 Samuel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel11 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 5:2דָּג֑וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:2דָּגֽוֹן׃dagonproper noun (a name)carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:3דָג֗וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:3דָּג֔וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:4דָג֗וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:4דָּג֜וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:4דָּג֖וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:5דָג֜וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:5דָּג֛וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:5דָּג֖וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.here: Dagon
- 1 Samuel 5:7דָּג֥וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”here: Dagon