Definitions for dagon

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Dagon(noun)

    god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines

Wiktionary

  1. Dagon(ProperNoun)

    The main god of the Phoenicians represented as half man and half fish.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Dagon(u)

    the national god of the Philistines, represented with the face and hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish

  2. Dagon(noun)

    a slip or piece

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Dagon

    the national god of the Philistines, represented as half-man, sometimes half-woman, and half-fish; appears to have been a symbol to his worshippers of the fertilising power of nature, familiar to them in the fruitfulness of the sea.


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