מְגִדּוֹן
megidon · Megiddo
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4023 · appears 12 times in the Bible
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megidon (מְגִדּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Megiddo”.
A strong city that overlooks the plain of Jezreel.
How to say it
me·gi·don
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Megiddo
Today: Tel Megiddo ruins, Israel
A city guarding an important pass into the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel.
Canaanite kings fought Israel there (Judg 5:19). Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:15), and King Josiah died there (2 Kgs 23:29).
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Where it appears
- Joshua 12:21
the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
- Joshua 17:11
And in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns: the three heights.
- Judges 1:27
Manasseh did not dispossess Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; and the Canaanite was determined to live in this land.
- Judges 5:19
Kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; gain of silver they did not take.
- 1 Kings 4:12
Baana son of Ahilud, Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-shean, which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
- 1 Kings 9:15
And this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon raised to build the house of YHWH and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.
- 2 Kings 9:27
Ahaziah king of Judah saw this and fled by the way of Beth-haggan. Jehu pursued him and said, “Him too! Strike him!” And they struck him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.
- 2 Kings 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went to meet him, and he put him to death at Megiddo when he saw him.
- 2 Kings 23:30
His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own grave. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.
- 1 Chronicles 7:29
and alongside the sons of Manasseh: Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:22
But Josiah did not turn his face away from him, but to fight against him he disguised himself, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Elohim; and he came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
- Zechariah 12:11
On that day the lament in Jerusalem will be great, like the lament of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.