דָּגָן
dâgân · daw-gawn'
properly, increase, i.e. grain
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1711 (דָּגָה);
properly, increase, i.e. grain
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: corn (floor), wheat.
Letters
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the doorway, the way in › to carry, to lift up › the seed, life continuing
The doorway, the way in that works to carry, to lift up of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of דָּגָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
40 occurrences · 40 OT · 0 NT · 26 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of corn6 · 16%
- corn3 · 8%
- of the corn3 · 8%
- for the corn3 · 8%
- thy corn2 · 5%
- of thy corn2 · 5%
- and with corn1 · 3%
- and of the wheat1 · 3%
- unto you, as though it were the corn1 · 3%
- in thy corn1 · 3%
- also of thy corn1 · 3%
- thee either corn1 · 3%
- and corn1 · 3%
- and of the corn1 · 3%
- that their corn1 · 3%
- them corn1 · 3%
- them of the corn1 · 3%
- for wheat1 · 3%
- where is corn1 · 3%
- her corn1 · 3%
- my corn1 · 3%
- the corn1 · 3%
- themselves for corn1 · 3%
- upon every cornfloor1 · 3%
- as the corn1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.