Bible Person
Meaning: corn; a fish · Male · 7 cross references
Dagon is the Philistine god associated in Scripture with rival worship, defeated power, and the humiliation of idols before the Lord. This entry represents a named deity in the biblical world rather than a human person. First appears in Judg 16:23.1
AI summary: Dagon matters because the cross references place him at scenes where the God of Israel exposes the weakness of false worship. In Gaza his temple becomes the site of Samson's final act, and in Ashdod his fallen image dramatizes the Lord's superiority even when the ark appears captured. The name therefore carries more than local religious background; it marks direct confrontation between living divine authority and powerless idols. Taken together, the material presents Dagon as a rival god repeatedly shown to be unable to stand before the Lord.1
Central Figure
Dagon
Meaning: corn; a fish
Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg.
Little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines (Judg. 16:23). This idol had the body of a fish with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylonian deity, the worship of which was introduced among the Philistines through Chaldea. The most famous of the temples of Dagon were at Gaza (Judg. 16:23-30) and Ashdod (1 Sam. 5:1-7). (See FISH.) 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.