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Dagon   /dˈeɪgən/   Listen
Dagon

noun
1.
God of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines.





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"Dagon" Quotes from Famous Books



... primitive. The ideal man is the ideal warrior. Grim tales of war are told with unaffected delight, and the spirit of God manifests itself chiefly in the inspiration of the warrior. Gideon and Micah have their idols. Chemosh and Dagon are as real, though not so powerful, as Jehovah. Unlike the redaction, the earlier tales are not given to moralizing, and yet once at least the moral is explicitly pointed, ix. 56ff. But elsewhere the ...
— Introduction to the Old Testament • John Edgar McFadyen


Words linked to "Dagon" :   Phenicia, Phoenicia, Philistia, Semitic deity


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