Meaning of “Rimmon”

1. Rimmon — pomegranate. (1.) A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.) (2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. (3.) One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chr. 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr. 4:32 (comp. Neh. 11:29) the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon=the spring of the pomegranate. It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron. (4.) "Rock of," to which the Benjamites fled (Judg. 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It is the present village of Rummon, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley," supposed to be the site of Ai.

2. Gath-rimmon — press of the pomegranate. (1.) A Levitical city in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:45; 21:24; 1 Chr. 6:69). (2.) Another city of the same name in Manasseh, west of the Jordan (Josh. 21:25), called also Bileam (1 Chr. 6:70).

3. Hadad-rimmon — (composed of the names of two Syrian idols), the name of a place in the valley of Megiddo. It is alluded to by the prophet Zechariah (12:11) in a proverbial expression derived from the lamentation for Josiah, who was mortally wounded near this place (2 Chr. 35:22-25). It has been identified with the modern Rummaneh, a village "at the foot of the Megiddo hills, in a notch or valley about an hour and a half south of Tell Metzellim."

4. Rimmon-parez — a pomegranate breach, or Rimmon of the breach, one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (Num. 33:19, 20).

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Bible Search for “Rimmon”

1. Numbers Chapter 33 Verse 20 — And they departed from Rimmonparez, and pitched in Libnah.

2. Numbers Chapter 33 Verse 19 — And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.

3. Joshua Chapter 15 Verse 32 — And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

4. Joshua Chapter 19 Verse 45 — And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,

5. Joshua Chapter 21 Verse 25 — And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.

6. Joshua Chapter 21 Verse 24 — Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.

7. Judges Chapter 20 Verse 47 — But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

8. Judges Chapter 20 Verse 45 — And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

9. Judges Chapter 21 Verse 13 — And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

10. 2 Samuel Chapter 4 Verse 9 — And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

11. 2 Samuel Chapter 4 Verse 5 — And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.

12. 2 Samuel Chapter 4 Verse 2 — And Saul's son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.

13. 2 Kings Chapter 5 Verse 18 — In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.

14. 1 Chronicles Chapter 4 Verse 32 — And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

15. 1 Chronicles Chapter 6 Verse 77 — Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:

16. 1 Chronicles Chapter 6 Verse 69 — And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs:

17. Nehemiah Chapter 11 Verse 29 — And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,

18. Zechariah Chapter 12 Verse 11 — In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

19. Zechariah Chapter 14 Verse 10 — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

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