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# מְגִדּוֹ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4023

**Megiddo** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Megiddo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4023/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגִדּוֹ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4023/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (Zc 12:11) מְגִדּוֹן n.pr.loc. (connexion with above √ not clear; 𝔊 Μαγεδδω, Μεκεδω, Μαγεδω, etc.; 𝔙 Mageddo; Assyrian Magadû, Magidû, COTGloss DlPa 287) old Canaanitish city, assigned to Manasseh 1 K 4:12; 9:15 2 K 9:27; 23:29, 30; מֶלֶךְ מ׳ Jos 12:21; ישְׁבֵי מ׳ Jos 17:11 = Ju 1:27; מֵי מ׳ Ju 5:19; בִּקְעַת מ׳ Zc 12:11 2 Ch 35:22;—mod. Lejjûn (= legio) RobBR ii, 329 f. 364 BdPal 229.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Megiddo (6); of Megiddo (6).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.21/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ תַּעְנַךְ֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ מְגִדּ֖וֹ אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Taanach one the.king of.Megiddo one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

[Judges 5:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.19/#tree)

בָּ֤אוּ מְלָכִים֙ נִלְחָ֔מוּ אָ֤ז נִלְחֲמוּ֙ מַלְכֵ֣י כְנַ֔עַן בְּתַעְנַ֖ךְ עַל־מֵ֣י מְגִדּ֑וֹ בֶּ֥צַע כֶּ֖סֶף לֹ֥א לָקָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* they.came kings they.fought then they.fought the.kings of.Canaan at Taanach at the.waters of.Megiddo profit of.silver not they.took

*JPS 1917:* The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4023.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4023/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).