Dagon: Little fish; diminutive from dag a fish, the fish-god; the national
god of the Philistines
(Judges 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
(Judges 16:23-30) and Ashdod
(1 Samuel 5:1-7)
