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
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
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
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
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