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The very word “Armageddon” is evocative, powerful, even frightening. Yet it is simply a place-name. Armageddon comes from Greek ‘ Armagedwvn and is most likely derived from the Hebrew “Har Megiddon,” meaning “the Mount of Megiddo.”.
Megiddo is perhaps best known for its association with the term "Armageddon," derived from the Hebrew "Har Megiddo," meaning "Mount Megiddo." In the Book of Revelation, it is described as the site of the final battle between good and evil.
- The Hebrew meaning of har does not require “mountain”; it can mean “hill.” Har is often found in parallel with givʿah, which we usually translate “hill.”
- Megiddo is built upon a natural hill, and its twenty-two layers of occupation on top of the natural hill cause it to stand up above the plain, which stretches out in front of it to the northwest, northeast, and north.
- Zechariah 12:11 references the story of the death of King Josiah near the hill in the “Plain of Megiddo” (biqʿat Megiddon). Yet Megiddo is not a plain either!
- The term har is used of another city that sat above a plain. Joshua 13:19 lists among the cities of Reuben, Tzeret haShachar behar haʿemeq, “on the hill of the plain.”
Sep 20, 2023 · The New Testament does not mention Megiddo, but the term Armegeddon (Har Megiddo, or “Mount Megiddo”) is mentioned in Revelation 16:16 as a place of judgment against the enemies of God, which would seem to correlate with the imagery in Zechariah 12.
May 21, 2008 · Megiddo — in later Scriptures also known as Megiddon (מגדון, Zechariah 12:11) — was an ancient Canaanite city southeast of Mount Carmel at the western approach of the Jezreel Valley. It was conquered by Joshua (Joshua 12:21) and assigned to Manasseh (17:11).
MEGIDDOmĕ gĭd’ ō (מְגִדֹּ֖ו, also מְגִדֹּֽון, Zechariah 12:11; LXX usually Μαγεδ (δ, G1225) ώ (ν, G3708), esp. Luc.). A major Bronze Age and Israelite city in the Jezreel Plain. It commands the entrance to the Wâdī ’Ârah, which served in antiquity as the main pass on the Via Maris between the Sharon Plain and the Valley of Jezreel.
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Most Christians know that the book of Revelation prophesies an end-times battle that will be fought at a place called Armageddon (Rv 16:16), and many know that “Armageddon” is, in fact, a corruption of the Greek word Ἁρμαγεδών (Harmagedon), or “the hill of Megiddo.”
