Hebrew

Alternative forms

• מגידון \ מְגִדּוֹן ‎(megidón)

Proper noun

מגידו \ מְגִדּוֹ • ‎(megído)

1. (archaic) A place of crowds.
2. (biblical) Megiddo or Megiddon: an ancient city of Canaan, located on the southern rim of the plain of Esdraelon 10 km (6 miles) from Mount Carmel.
   • Judges 5:19, with translation of the New International Version:

     בָּאוּ מְלָכִים נִלְחָמוּ אָז נִלְחֲמוּ מַלְכֵי כְנַעַן בְּתַעְנַךְ עַל־מֵי מְגִדּוֹ בֶּצַע כֶּסֶף לֹא לָקָחוּ׃‎

     Kings came, they fought, the kings of Canaan fought. At Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo, they took no plunder of silver.

3. Megiddo: a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the Jezreel Valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Megiddo Regional Council. [from 1945]
   • 1957, Leah Goldberg, אַיֵּה פּלוּטוֹ ‎(literally “Where is Pluto”):

     פְּלוּטוֹ כְּלַבְלַב מִקִבּוּץ מְגִדּוֹ, יֵשׁ לוֹ הַכֹּל: מָרָק וָעֶצֶם.‎

     Pluto a doggy from kibbutz Megiddo, he has everything: a soup and a bone.

References

• “H4023”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979