1 Samuel 5:4-5

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ And when they were up early in the next morning behold, Dagon lay groveling upon the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and his two hands cut off upon the threshold, that the body only was left on him. ⁵ Wherefore neither the priests of Dagon, neither any man that cometh into Dagon's house might tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day.

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the head.
Isaiah 2:18; Isaiah 2:19; Isaiah 27:9; Jeremiah 10:11; Jeremiah 50:2; Ezekiel 6:4-6; Daniel 11:8; Micah 1:7
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\u65533 sam\u65533 n, the\u65533 ma xenon; \u65533 misen men gyn\u65533; to de okoson ek m\u65533 r\u65533 n es akrous podas, ichtlyos our\u65533 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\u65533 pon echei synaikos, to d'allo s\u65533 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.
the stump. or, the fishy part.