Bible Names

Sargon: meaning of the name

Sargon means “who takes away protection.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Sargon in Hebrew and Greek

סַרְגּוֹן H5623

Çargôwn (sar-gone') — Sargon, an Assyrian king

of foreign derivation;

Sargon in Scripture

“Sargon” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Isaiah 20:1

    In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;