invocation to the god Rimmon
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HADADRIMMON.A proper name occurring in Zec_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 Megiddo 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 for Hadadrimmon, and it has been plausibly conjectured that it is the weeping for Tammuz referred to in Eze_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.
J. F. MCurdy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ha-dad-rim?on, had-ad-rim?on (הדד רמון, hădhadh rimmōn): A name which occurs, along with Megiddon, in Zec_12:11. It was long thought that this was a place in the plain of Megiddo, and that the mourning referred to was that for Josiah, slain in battle with Pharaoh-necoh (2Ki_23:29). This last, however, was certainly at Jerusalem. Jerome (Comm. on Zec) identifies Hadadrimmon with Maximianopolis, a village near Jezreel, probably Legio, the ancient Megiddo. Possibly, however, the form ?Hadadrimmon? has arisen through the combination of two divine names; and the weeping may be that for Tammuz (Eze_8:14), with whom the old Semitic deity had become confused in the popular mind.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.