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Dagon

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

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The dunghill god of the Philistines. We have the relation concerning this idol, Judges 16:23 and again, 1 Samuel 5:2, etc. The name seems well suited for such a purpose, being derived from Dag, fish. Some historians say, that the idol was formed like a fish.

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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Dagon'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​pmd/​d/dagon.html. London. 1828.
 
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