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Definition of Dagan
1. Noun. God of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dagan
Literary usage of Dagan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Empire of the Amorites by Albert Tobias Clay (1919)
"Shamshi-Adad, "king of Assyria, king of the universe," restored the temple of
Dagan, and recorded himself as a worshipper of that god. ..."
2. The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such by Sabine Baring-Gould, John Fisher (1908)
"In thankfulness for his preservation from death, Dagan received the Communion
from the hands of his Abbot.1 Probably, whilst he was still young, ..."
3. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"In the next reign, Idin- Dagan (2316-2295 BC), the royal house was still in ...
Dagan (2295-2275 BC), his successor, is able to boast of his care of Nippur, ..."
4. Pioneering in South Brazil: Three Years of Forest and Prairie Life in the by Thomas Plantagenet Bigg-Wither (1878)
"—Dagan and the tree bridges.—Indian runners.—After work in the forest. THE bold
and shrewd spirit of enterprise which in the Eastern hemisphere causes men ..."
5. Egypt's Place in Universal History: An Historical Investigation in Five Books by Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Samuel Birch (1860)
"... Dagan, ATLAS. . (§ 2.) THIS account may easily be explained by restoring the
Phoenician names and their signification ..."
6. A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European, Sanskrit by August Schleicher, Herbert Bendall (1877)
"11, eka-dagan-, with lengthening of final a of § 110. stem Ska- (one); 12,
dva-dagan-, dm probably must be considered a dual; 13, ..."
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