King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1016
Transliteration: Beth-dagon
Phonetic Spelling: (bayth-daw-gohn')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "house of Dagon", two places in Palestine
Meaning: Beth-dagon -- "house of Dagon", two places in Palestine
Word Summary
Beth-dagon: "house of Dagon", two places in Palestine
Original Word: בֵּית־דָּגוֹןTransliteration: Beth-dagon
Phonetic Spelling: (bayth-daw-gohn')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: "house of Dagon", two places in Palestine
Meaning: Beth-dagon -- "house of Dagon", two places in Palestine
Strong's Concordance
Beth-dagon From bayith and Dagown; house of Dagon; Beth-Dagon, the name of two places in Palestine -- Beth-dagon.
see HEBREW bayith
see HEBREW Dagown
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1016. Beth
-dagon בֵּיתדָּֿגוֺן Joshua 15:41, דָּגֹן בֵּית 19:27 proper name, of a location 1. in Judah (house, i.e. temple of Dagon; Assyrian Bit-Daganna COT15:41, & i. p. 281) 15:41 (ᵐ5 Βαγαδιηλ, but ᵐ5L Βηθδαγων) — name appears in modern Beit Dejân, southeast of Jaffa, but location unsuitable, compare RobBR ii. 232.
2 in Asher Joshua 19:27 (ᵐ5 Βαιθεγενεθ, but ᵐ5L Βηθδαγων) perhaps = Beit Dejen, near Akko, compare Di. **Jeromeopp. (ed. Vallarsl). iii. 38 defines as domus tritici, and says Id.ib. 174): 'sed et usque hodie grandis vicus Capherdago inter Diospolim et Jamnian demonstratur.' [Elsewhere he defines דגון (Id.ib. 48) as 'piscis tristitiae'] (HPS, privately).