ADADREMMON (Heb. Hadadrimmön). - A term occurring only in Zach. 12:11, where the prophet, foretelling the death of the Messiah (v. 10), compares the mourning that will then take place to the “mourning of Hadad-Rimmön in the plain of Mëghiddön.”
According to St. Jerome (In Zach. 12:11; PL 25, 1515), A. would be the locality of Maximianopolis, today
Rummanèh near Meghiddò (v. MAGEDDO), where King Iosia died in battle: an event that caused profound national mourning (II Par. 35:24-25). This identification is upheld by A. Legendre (DB, I, cols. 167-70) and by many others. But noting that A. as a locality is not attested by any other source and that Meghiddò is not Meghiddò, Van Hoonacker, relying on the Septuagint, which reads only Rimmón without Adad, emends the text: “Like the mourning of Rimmón in the plain of Migrón” (the interchange of r and d in the Hebrew text is not uncommon). Rimmón (Vulgate Remmon) is a rock rising near Migrón (Vulgate Magron) on the road to Gabaa (I Sam. 14:1; Iudc. 20:45-47; 21:13). Upon that rock the 600 Benjaminites who escaped the massacre of the tribe took refuge (Iudc. 20-21); Zach. would compare this mourning with the mourning for the death of the Messiah (A. Van Hoonacker, Les 22 petits Prophètes, Paris 1908, p. 683 ff.).
On the numerous textual and exegetical hypotheses concerning the messianic “mourning of A.,” see G. F. Re, Dizionario di erudizione biblica, I, Turin 1891, pp. 319-24, who rightly rejects the allusion to the “mourning of Adonis,” maintained by many critics after Hitzig, Reuss, and Wellhausen.
For the exegesis of Zach. 12:10-11, see A. Skrinjar, in Verbum Domini, 11 (1931), pp. 233-42. Gaetano M. Perrella