Hebrew n-m-t · H1712
דָּגוֹן
Dagondaw-gohn'
Dagon
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Dâgôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1712is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1712
Dagon, a Philistine deity
The King James renders it: Dagon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Dagon is rendered "Dagon". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 16:23Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
Judges 16:23לְדָג֥וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's thirteen uses are in 1 Samuel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Dagon12
- to Dagon1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- דָג֗וֹן2
- דָּג֖וֹן2
- דָג֜וֹן1
- דָּג֑וֹן1
- דָּג֔וֹן1
- דָּג֜וֹן1
- דָּג֛וֹן1
- דָּג֥וֹן1
- דָּגֽוֹן׃1
- דָּגֽוֹן׃ ס1
- לְדָג֥וֹן1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)12HNpt
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npt
Judges
one use
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
- לְדָג֥וֹןledagonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Dagon
1 Samuel
eleven uses
carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
- דָּג֑וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּגֽוֹן׃dagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
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.
- דָג֗וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּג֔וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
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.
- דָג֗וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּג֜וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּג֖וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
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.
- דָג֜וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּג֛וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
- דָּג֖וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
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.”
- דָּג֥וֹןdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
1 Chronicles
one use
They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
- דָּגֽוֹן׃ סdagonproper noun (a name)tagged: Dagon
The letters
Gematria 63· 713 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.