Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city of northwest Palestine on the southern edge of the Plain of Esdraelon. It was the scene of many battles throughout early history because of its strategic position on the route connecting Egypt with Mesopotamia.
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- noun see
Mount Megiddo
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Examples
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I sat in Megiddo Prison and suddenly I understood who the real Hamas was.
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Megiddo comes from a root, gadad, "cut off," and means slaughter.
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It was perhaps appropriate that I started my hike in the far north of the West Bank, within a few miles of a hill called Megiddo, where Pharoah Thutmose III overwhelmed the Canaanite king Durusha in about 1457BC, thus beginning the legend of Armageddon, the site of the Last Battle.
Walking in Palestine 2010
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Within a few decades, official documents refer to Megiddo as the seat of the governor.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Within a few decades, official documents refer to Megiddo as the seat of the governor.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Within a few decades, official documents refer to Megiddo as the seat of the governor.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Within a few decades, official documents refer to Megiddo as the seat of the governor.
The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001
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Here Allenby had laid out his greatest trick: He would convince the enemy that he was about to strike out on his right, directly across the Jordan, whereas in reality he planned to attack on his left, circling down on them from their western flank through the Valley of Jezreel, that is known as Megiddo, or Armageddon.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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Here Allenby had laid out his greatest trick: He would convince the enemy that he was about to strike out on his right, directly across the Jordan, whereas in reality he planned to attack on his left, circling down on them from their western flank through the Valley of Jezreel, that is known as Megiddo, or Armageddon.
O Jerusalem King, Laurie R. 1999
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"Megiddo" is Crouch's sequel to "The Omega Code," a film about an evil media tycoon who steals a secret Biblical code and threatens to take over the world with it, only to be thwarted at the last minute by a God-fearing motivational speaker.
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