In the 19th century, the village women were locally renowned for their intricate, high quality embroidery designs, a feature of traditional Palestinian costumes.

[10] Bayt Dajan /Bēt Dajan/ is a Canaanite name that appears in standard Babylonian (in a Neo-Assyrian inscription from 701 BC) Bīt(É)-da-gan-na78 and [Bητ]οδεγανα on the Madaba Map.

[12] Jerome describes the village in the 4th century CE as "very large", noting its name then as "Kafar Dagon" or "Caphardagon", situating it between Diospolis (modern Lod) and Yamnia (Yavne/Yibna).

[12] The nearby site of Khirbet Dajūn, a tel with ruins to the southwest of Bayt Dajan, preserves the Dagon rather than Dagan spelling.

[12][13] During his reign of 724–743 CE, the Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik built a palace in Bayt Dajan with white marble columns.

When the governor ordered all dhimmis to display a wooden figure on their doors, he persuaded the authorities to allow the Samaritans to use a menorah symbol.

[12][21][22] In 1226, during Ayyubid rule, Yaqut al-Hamawi writes that it was "one of the villages in the district of Ramla" and devotes the rest of his discussion of it to Ahmad al-Dajani, also known as Abu Bakr Muhammad, a renowned Muslim scholar who hailed from there.

The villagers paid taxes to the authorities for the crops that they cultivated, which included wheat, barley, fruit, and sesame as well as on other types of agricultural products, such as goats, beehives and vineyards; a total of 14,200 akçe.

[25] In 1051 AH/1641/2, the Bedouin tribe of al-Sawālima from the Jaffa vicinity attacked the villages of Subṭāra, Bayt Dajan, al-Sāfiriya, Jindās, Lydda and Yāzūr belonging to Waqf Haseki Sultan.

[12] The village appeared on the map of Pierre Jacotin compiled in 1799 during the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, though he calls it Al-Qubab.

[29] A headstone, made of limestone with a poetic inscription in Arabic from Bayt Dajan, dating to 1842, was also in Dayan's private collection.

[32] Philip Baldensperger noted of Bayt Dajan in 1895 that:The inhabitants are very industrious, occupied chiefly in making mats and baskets for carrying earth and stones.

Based on his observations detailed in a report for the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF), Macalister believes the area was inhabited on a continuous basis:"Thus we have three epochs in the history of Beth-Dagon — the first on an as yet unknown site, from the Amorite to the Roman periods; the second at Dajiin, extending over the Roman and early Arab periods; the third at the modern Beit Dejan, lasting to the present day.

[41] The final operational order stated: "Civilian inhabitants of places conquered would be permitted to leave after they are searched for weapons.

[44][45] On 16 June 1948, David Ben-Gurion, probably based on a progress report from Weitz, cited Bayt Dajan as one of the villages that had been destroyed.

[7] The Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi described the village in 1992: "A number of houses remain; some are deserted, others are occupied by Jewish families, or used as stores, office buildings, or warehouses.

One of the deserted houses is made of concrete and has a gabled, tiled roof that is starting to collapse; others are sealed and stand amid shrubs and weeds.

[52] White linen garments inspired by Ramallah styles were popular, using patchwork and appliqued sequins in addition to embroidery.

[52] In the 1920s, a lady from Bethlehem named Maneh Hazbun came to live in Bayt Dajan after her brother bought some orange groves there.

Typical for Bayt Dajan would be a motif consisting of two triangles, mirror-faced, with or without an embroidered stripe between them, and with inverted cypresses at the edges.

Accompanied by all the village women in their finest dress, the bride would go to the well to present a tray of sweets to the guardian of the well and fill her pitcher with water to ensure good fortune for her home.

[55] There are also several items from Bayt Dajan and the surrounding area is in the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) collection at Santa Fe, United States.