Word

מְגִדּוֹן

Mᵉgiddôwn · H4023 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences

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Place

Megiddofirst named in Joshua 12:2112 verses

Meanings

Megiddo

A town southwest of the Valley of Jizreel in the territory of Manasseh, a former Canaanite kingdom where King Josiah of Judah was killed fighting Pharaoh Neco

Examples
Joshua 12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Joshua 17:11 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 third is Napheth.
Judges 1:27 But Manasseh did not take possession of 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; so the Canaanites persisted in living in this land.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָּנָהto build, to rebuild, to establish 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּעֲנָאBaana 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom 2
בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 4 groups

בִּקְעָהvalley 2
יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 2
מַיִםwater 1
מֶלֶךְking 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of Locations003001010: Megiddo names a strategic Canaanite city and battlefield, as in Judges 5:19's battle "at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo" and 2 Kings 23:29's death of Josiah there, placing it among place names.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4023. Mgiddown מְגִדּוֺ and (Zec 12:11) מְגִדּוֺן proper name, of a location (connection…

H4023. Mgiddown
מְגִדּוֺ and (Zec 12:11) מְגִדּוֺן proper name, of a location (connection with above √ not clear; ᵐ5 Μαγεδδω, Μεκεδω, Μαγεδω, etc.; ᵑ9 Mageddo; Assyrian Magadû, Magidû COTGloss DlPa 287) old Canaanitish city, assigned to Manasseh 1Ki 4:12; 1Ki 9:15; 2Ki 9:27; 2Ki 23:29-30, מ ׳מֶלֶךְ Jos 12:21; מ ׳ישְׁבֵי Jos 17:11 = Jdg 1:27; מ ׳מֵי Jdg 5:19; מ ׳בִּקְעַת Zec 12:11; 2Ch 35:22; — modern Lejjûn (=Legio) RobBR ii. 329 f.364BdPal 229.
גדה (cut, cut or tear away ?).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of Locations12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0