Rimmon
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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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....
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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:...
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Rimmon (Hebrew "pomegranate") is the proper name for a
number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible:
Torah with rimmonim
A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite
cities. (See Joshua 9:17.)
A Syrian cult image, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18. In
Syria this deity was known as "Baal" ("the Lord" par
excellence), in Assyria a...
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-1. Father of the murderers of Ish-bosheth
2Sa 4:2,5,9
-2. A city south of Jerusalem
Zec 14:10
Allotted to the tribe of Judah
Jos 15:32; Ne 11:29
Later alloted to the tribe of Simeon
Jos 19:7; 1Ch 4:32
Called REMMON
Jos 19:7
Also called EN-RIMMON
Ne 11:29
-3. A city of the tribe of Zebulun
1Ch 6:77
Called REMMON-METHOAR
Jos 19:13
-4...
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(pomegranate) the name of several towns.
1. A city of Zebulun 1Ch 6:77; Ne 11:29 a Levitical
city, the present Rummaneh, six miles north of Nazareth.
2. A town in the southern portion of Judah, Jos 15:3
allotted to Simeon, Jos 19:7; 1Ch 4:32 probably 13 miles
southwest of Hebron.
3. Rimmon-parez (pomegranate of the breach), the name
of a mar...
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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....
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1. Father of Rechab and Bannah: 2 Samuel 4:2-9.(See RECHAB;
BAANAH.)
2. An idol worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus (2
Kings 5:18). The name appears in Hadad Rimmon. From rum,
"the most high"; as El-ion (Selden, Gesenius, etc.). Others
from Hebrew rimmon, a "pomegranate," sacred to Venus; the
fertilizing principle in nature; tree worship a...
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rim'-on:
(1) The rock Rimmon (cela` rimmon; he petra Rhemmon): The
place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of Gibeah
(Jeba`) who "turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the
rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months"
(Jdg 20:45,47; 21:13). Robinson's identification (RB, I,
440) has been very generally accepted. He ...
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