BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1910
ha.dad.rim.mon — Hadad-rimmon
§ Hadad-rimmon = "Hadad of the pomegranates" a place in the valley of Megiddo where a national lamentation was held for the death of King Josiah; named after two Syrian gods
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →(composed of the names of two Syrian idols), the name of a place in the valley of Megiddo. It is alluded to by the prophet Zechariah (12:11) in a proverbial expression derived from the lamentation for Josiah, who was mortally wounded near this place (2 Chr. 35:22-25). It has been identified with the modern Rummaneh, a village “at the foot of the Megiddo hills, in a notch or valley about an hour and a half south of Tell Metzellim.”
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
