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ARMAGEDDON

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 561 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
ARMAGEDDON , a name occurring in the Authorized Version of the English Bible in Rev. xvj. 16. The Revised Version has Harmagedon. The form is commonly regarded as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew liar megiddon, the
mountain
 
district
  of Megiddo. The writer is describing the place where the last decisive battle was to be fought at the Day of Judgment, and Harmagedon may have been chosen as the name because the
district
  about Megiddo had been on several occasions the scene of
great
  battles (cf. Judg. iv. 6 if., v. 1g). It has, however, been suggested in the Zeitschrift fur die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, vii. 170 (1887), that the name is for liar migdo, " his fruitful
mountain
  "the mountain land of
Israel
 . Prof.
Cheyne
  (Encyc. Bibl. s.v.) again, following suggestions of H. Gunkel, H. Zimmern and P. Jensen, compares the
dragon
  of the
Apocalypse
  with the Babylonian Tiamat, thinks that some myth is referred to, and finds the uaye&wv of 'Apayebwv in the divine name `YeueputyaSwv, a Babylonian god of the underworld. The name of the place where Tiamat was defeated by Marduk perhaps included that of a god of the underworld. (See ANTICHRIST.) From the application of the word Armageddon to the
great
  battle of the End of Time comes the use of the phrase " an Armageddon " to express any great slaughter or final conflict.


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