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2) Where is the place called Armageddon?
There is, as yet, no place in Hebrew called Armageddon. When the nations are gathered together to battle against Yahweh's purpose then the place will be called, in Hebrew, Armageddon.
The first point that must be made is that we have the word 'Armageddon' from a corrupted text the 1551 Textus Receptus, also the 1894 version.
αρμαγεδδων
armageddon
The Majority Text, Minority Text, the Byzantine Text and Westcott Hort all agree the Greek is,
αρμαγεδων
armagedon
It is a minor point that in the correct spelling there ought only to be one 'd'.
We have, conveniently, what the name is in Hebrew, as we have a Hebrew version of the New Testament. That version has
הר מגדון
Har megidon
In Hebrew 'Har' (הר) means “mountain”. This Hebrew translation does not refer to Megiddo as in the Hebrew Old Testament Megiddo is always, without exception, written Megido מגדו. Rather it is specific in referring to a Megidon מגדון
We know a fact about Hebrew place names regarding the suffix “on”, which can be established without a doubt. It can be shown that the suffix 'on' means “the place of”,
Hebron: חֶבְרוֹן traces back to two West Semitic roots, which coalesce in the form ḥbr, 'colleague', 'unite', 'friend' or in Hebrew kheber חבר meaning 'company'
Therefore heber-on חֶבְר וֹן means 'the place of company'
Ajalon: אַיָּלוֹן is from ayal אַיָּל hart, or aylah אַיָּלָה gazelle, so ayal-on אַיָּל וֹן means the 'place of the hart'.
Gibeon: גבעון where gibeaגבע is hillock or low hill. So 'Gibe-on' גבע ון is the place of the low hill.
Samaria is in Hebrew Shomron:שׁמרון which means watch station, or guard place, from shomer שׁמר meaning watch or guard. Shomer-on therefore means 'the place of watching'.
Heshbon: Cheshbônחשׁבּון is from châshab חשׁב to fabricate; to plot or contrive; hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, or compute. Therefore Heshbon is the place of thinking, computing and contriving. (It is a subject of a proverb, to make people think, in Numbers 21:25-30)
Abadon: אֲבַדּוֹן means destroyer – where abad אֲבַדּ means 'to perish', so abad-on means place of destruction.
Zidon: צידון is the place for Tzid צוד meaning waiting to catch (fish).
Zion is ציּון a waymark or a place in the wilderness from Tzyh ציּה meaning desert/wilderness (where all is clearly seen). Tzy-on is the 'place mark of the wilderness'.
In all these cases, of which all are well known, the suffix 'on' in the Hebrew place names means “the place of”.
We can be sure that such a Hebrew place name suffix as 'on' might apply in the modern world to a Hebrew place as one of the most controversial of all Hebrew places is Gush Etzion.
Etzi-on: עֶצְיוֹן where 'etz' means tree and etzion 'place of tree'. It was named as a founder of the first modern settlement was Holtzman where 'holtz' means 'tree' and in addition the area at the time characterised by a massive oak tree, which in Hebrew is 'etz'.
Another instance of a famous Hebrew place name is most interesting is it brings us closer: the name of Mount Hermon.
הר חרמון
har Hermon, where herym חרים means 'raise up', 'lift up' and Herm-on חרמון means the place of elevation.
Thus we have an analysis of Hebrew names that supports
הר מגד ון
har megid-on
meaning 'Mountain of a place of 'megid'.
There is strong support for 'megid' being a Hebrew word where the prefix me מ means “out of”, “of” or “from” or “than”.
גּדד gedad – cut down, from,
גּדד gadad - to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into): - assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves together, self in troops), cut selves and
גּדה gâdâh - to cut off); a border of a river (as cut into by the stream): - bank.
גּדוּד gadud- a crowd (especially of soldiers): - army, band (of men), company, troop (of robbers).
גּדי a young goat- kid
גּדישׁ -a stack of sheaves;
גּדע -gâda‛ to fell a tree; generally to destroy anything: - cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
גּדעון – gideon – 'a feller' or one who cuts down.
גּדעם- gidom - a cutting (that is, desolation) a place in Israel.
Where
מגבּלה – migbâlâh – means a border or an end.
מגד- meged -to be eminent; properly a distinguished thing; hence something valuable, as a product or fruit: - pleasant, precious fruit (thing).
מגדּל מגדּול – Migdol - a tower.
מגדּלה מגדּל – a tower, castle, rostrum.
We have the idea of something ending, or something tall that is cut down. Fruit is cut off, and a stack of sheaves is from a harvest that grows tall spread over an area and is subsequently cut down. And g'dad implies a large gathering, or army, to be cut down.
But of most interest is a double connection to a place related to the word 'Gidom', Megidon: מגדון. It just so happens that the two words only occur once each in the Bible. It also so happens that Megidon (mistranslated as Megiddon) it is the precise word used in the Hebrew translation of Revelation 16:16.
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