who is Dagon?

Question

in accordance to the Old Testament.
It goes along with
Mot: [god of death and underworld]
Anath:[goddess of war]
Ashreh:[represented human sexuality; wooden pole]

It is another one of the gods/goddess' that Solomons wives brought into the kingdom.
Unfortunatly, I do not know who//what Dagon represented.
Do you?

Answer 1

Dagon is thought to have been an important fertility god among Mesopotamian peoples. He was the father of the famous Baal and the son of El, and was associated with crops, death, and the afterlife by different peoples.

Answer 2

Jdg 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: For they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

1Sa 5:2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

H1712
דּגון
dâgôn
daw-gohn'
From H1709; the fish god; Dagon, a Philistine deity: - Dagon

Have you ever seen The Little Mermaid? Her father King Triton - Halfman, Half Fish - There's your Dagon brother!

Dagon was the Phillistine god of agriculture and fertility.

Answer 3

Dagon is the manmade god that fell on his neck and broke off his head and hannds on the threshold. Just a man,made god nothing more.

Answer 4

Dagon was the god of war and blood

Answer 5

Early Hebrew god of the seas. Pop culture always represents him with fishy characteristics, so I'd say the ocean.

Answer 6

a Phoenician and Philistine god of agriculture and the earth: the national god of the Philistines.

Answer 7

ummmm
a conservative old Pagan,
who still votes for Ronald Reagun?

Is that good enough for you?

Answer 8

dont know