Dict: easton - Dagon

easton:

Dagon @ little fish; diminutive from dag = a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines kjv@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 kjv@Judges:16:23-30) and Ashdod ( kjv@1Samuel:5:1-7). (
See FISH.)