Dictionaries :: Doeg

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Doeg:

fearful, an Edomite, the chief overseer of Saul's flocks (1Sa 21:7). At the command of Saul he slew the high priest Ahimelech (q.v.) at Nob, together with all the priests to the number of eighty-five persons. (Comp. Ps. 52, title.)

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Doeg:

careful, who acts with uneasiness

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Doeg:

do'-eg (do'-egh "anxious," "cared for"): "The Edomite," a servant of Saul, who watched David's intercourse with the priest Ahimelech, then denounced the priest to the king, and later executed his command to slay the priests at Nob. The position he held is described as that of "the mightiest" of Samuel's herdsmen (1Sa 21:7 margin). Septuagint reads: "tending the mules." Rabbinical legends speak of him as the greatest scholar of his time. The traditional title of Ps 52 associates the composition of that Psalms with the events that led to the slaying of the priests (1Sa 21:7; 22:9,18,22).

Written by Nathan Isaacs

Nave's Topical Bible

Doeg: An Edomite

Present when Ahimelech helped David,

1Sa 21:7; Psa 52.

Doeg: Murdered Eighty-Five Priests

1Sa 22:18, 19

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Doeg:

(fearful) an Idumean, chief of Saul's herdsmen. (B.C. 1062) He was at Nob when Ahimelech gave David the sword of Goliath, and not only gave information to Saul, but when others declined the office, himself executed the king's order to destroy the priests of Nob, with their families, to the number of 85 persons, together with all their property (1 Samuel 21:7; 22:9; 22:18; 22:22; Psalm 52).