1 Samuel 5:4-12
head <07218> [the head.]
Dagon ................. Dagon ................ Dagon's <01712> [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 ethe‚sam‚n, the‚ma xenon; ‚misen men gyn‚; to de okoson ek m‚r¢n es akrous podas, ichtlyos our‚ 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 pros¢pon echei synaikos, to d'allo s¢ma 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.
Dagon ................. Dagon ................ Dagon's <01712> [the stump. or, the fishy part.]
priests <03548> [neither.]
<01869> [tread.]
attacked <03027> [the hand.]
<02914> [emerods.]
[thereof.]
The LXX. and Vulgate add: [Kai meson t‚s choras aut‚s anephy‚san myes kai egeneto synchysis thanatou megal‚ en t‚ polei; {Et ebullierunt vill‘ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magn‘ in civitate; "And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city."
When <07200> [saw.]
ark <0727> [The ark.]
God ................. god Dagon <0430 01712> [upon Dagon our god.]
do <06213> [What shall.]
Gath <01661> [Gath.]
attacked <03027> [the hand.]
great deal <03966> [with a very.]
<02914> [and they had emerods.]
God ... Ekron ....... God .... Ekron ................ God <06138 0430> [God to Ekron.]
kill ... people <05971 04191> [us, to slay us and our people. Heb. me, to slay me and my people.]
people <05971> [us not, and our people. Heb. me not, and my people. a deadly.]
attacking <03027> [the hand.]
die <04191> [died.]
cry for help <07775> [the cry.]
