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<p> <strong> [[Hadadrimmon]] </strong> . A proper name occurring in &nbsp; Zechariah 12:11 ‘as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.’ It has usually been supposed to be a place-name. According to a notice by Jerome, it would be equivalent to <strong> [[Megiddo]] </strong> itself. The word, however,’ is a combination of the two names of a divinity (see Hadad). An equally good translation would be ‘as the mourning <em> for </em> Hadadrimmon,’ and it has been plausibly conjectured that it is the weeping for [[Tammuz]] referred to in &nbsp; Ezekiel 8:14 , that is here meant. In this case the old Semitic deity [[Hadad-Rimmon]] would by the 2nd cent. b.c. have become confounded with Tammuz. There is no ground for supposing an allusion to the mourning for king Josiah, which, of course, took place in Jerusalem, not in the valley of Megiddo. </p> <p> J. F. M’Curdy. </p>