1Sa 5:2-5 | TSK | STEP

1 Samuel 5:2-5

of Dagon.

Jud 16:23; 1Ch 10:10; Da 5:2,23; Hab 1:11,16

Dagon was.

Ex 12:12; Ps 97:7; Isa 19:1; 46:1,2; Zep 2:11; Mr 3:11; Lu 10:18-20

2Co 6:14-16

set him.

Isa 19:1; 40:20; 41:7; 44:17-20; 46:1,2,7; Jer 10:8

the head.

Isa 2:18,19; 27:9; Jer 10:11; 50:2; Eze 6:4-6; Da 11:8; Mic 1:7

of Dagon.The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish: and it is supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman, and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us: [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike etheésamén, theéma xenon; émisen men gyné; to de okoson ek mérón es akrous podas, ichtlyos ouré apoteinetai;] "In Phoenicia I saw the image of Derceto; a strange sight truly! For she had the half of a woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail." Diodorus, (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon, says, [to men prosópon echei synaikos, to d'allo sóma pan ichthyos.] "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body a fish's." Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in De Art. Poet. v. 4; {Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa superne:} "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower part a fish." If such was the form of this idol, then everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a fish.

the stump. or, the fishy part.

neither.

Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-18

tread.

Jos 5:15; Zep 1:9