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Armageddon

A place spoken of, Rev. xvi, 16, which literally signifies “the mountain of Mageddon,” or “Megiddo,” a city situated in the great plain at the foot of Mount Carmel, where the good prince Josiah received his mortal wound, in the battle against Necho, king of Egypt. Armageddon is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Key facts

Subject type
Place
Strong’s
G0717
Hebrew
אַרְמוֹן · ʼarmôwn
Greek
Ἀρμαγεδδών · Armageddōn
Name meaning
hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

G0717

Ἀρμαγεδδών · Armageddōn

Glosses: Armageddon

Ἁρμαγεδών (WH, Ἃρ Μαγεδών; Rec. Ἀρμαγεδδών, prop. = הַר מְגִדּוֹן), cf.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

H0759

אַרְמוֹן · ʼarmôwn

Glosses: castle, palace. Compare H2038 (הַרְמוֹן).

a citadel (from its height)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H1457

גָּהַר · gâhar

Glosses: cast self down, stretch self.

to prostrate oneself

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H1725

דָּהַר · dâhar

Glosses: pause.

to curvet or move irregularly

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H1726

דַּהֲהַר · dahăhar

Glosses: pransing.

a gallop

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2022

הַר · har

Glosses: hill (country), mount(-ain), [idiom] promotion.

a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2025

הַרְאֵל · harʼêl

Glosses: altar. Compare H739 (אֲרִיאֵל).

mount of God

figuratively, the altar of burnt-offering

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2031

הַרְהֹר · harhôr

Glosses: thought.

a mental conception

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2038

הַרְמוֹן · harmôwn

Glosses: palace.

a castle (from its height)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2094

זָהַר · zâhar

Glosses: admonish, shine, teach, (give) warn(-ing).

to gleam

figuratively, to enlighten (by caution)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2095

זְהַר · zᵉhar

Glosses: take heed.

(passively) be admonished

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2096

זֹהַר · zôhar

Glosses: brightness.

brilliancy

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H2892

טֹהַר · ṭôhar

Glosses: clearness, glory, purifying.

literally brightness

ceremonially purification

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H4116

מָהַר · mâhar

Glosses: be carried headlong, fearful, (cause to make, in, make) haste(-n, -ily), (be) hasty, (fetch, make ready) [idiom] quickly, rash, [idiom] shortly, (be so) [idiom] soon, make speed, [idiom] speedily, [idiom] straightway, [idiom] suddenly, swift.

properly, to be liquid or flow easily, i.e. (by implication)

to hurry (in a good or a bad sense)

often used (with another verb) adverbially, promptly

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H4117

מָהַר · mâhar

Glosses: endow, [idiom] surely.

to bargain (for a wife), i.e. to wed

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H4119

מֹהַר · môhar

Glosses: dowry.

a price (for a wife)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H5102

נָהַר · nâhar

Glosses: flow (together), be lightened.

to sparkle, i.e. (figuratively) be cheerful

hence (from the sheen of a running stream) to flow, i.e. (figuratively) assemble

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H5103

נְהַר · nᵉhar

Glosses: river, stream.

a river, especially the Euphrates

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H5469

סַהַר · çahar

Glosses: round.

roundness

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H5470

סֹהַר · çôhar

Glosses: prison.

a dungeon (as surrounded by walls)

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H6671

צָהַר · tsâhar

Glosses: make oil.

to press out oil

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

H4023

מְגִדּוֹן · Mᵉgiddôwn

Glosses: Megiddo, Megiddon.

Megiddon or Megiddo, a place in Palestine

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Strong's Hebrew Lexicon

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Armageddon

hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ARMAGEDDON

a place spoken of, Rev. xvi, 16, which literally signifies “the mountain of Mageddon,” or “Megiddo,” a city situated in the great plain at the foot of Mount Carmel, where the good prince Josiah received his mortal wound, in the battle against Necho, king of Egypt. At Armageddon, the three unclean spirits coming out of the dragon’s mouth shall gather together the kings of the earth, to the battle of the great day of God Almighty, Rev.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Armageddon

Meaning:
hill of fruits; mountain of Megiddo

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

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