Pomegranate
רִמּוֹןStrong’s H7416rimmon (rim-mon)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rimmon is the Hebrew word usually translated “pomegranates”, “pomegranate” and “pomegranates of”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:”
Meaning
- Pomegranateas tree · as fruit · as pomegranate shaped ornaments in temple
How it's translated
- the pomegranates 10
- and a pomegranate 4
- pomegranates 4
- and pomegranates 3
- pomegranates of 2
- and pomegranate 2
- pomegranate tree 2
- pomegranate 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 6
- Exodus 5
- 1 Kings 3
- Numbers 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Jeremiah 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 28:34A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
- Exodus 39:24And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.
- Exodus 39:25And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
- Exodus 39:26A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Numbers 13:23And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.
- Numbers 20:5And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Hebrew dictionary
רִמּוֹן rimmon · pomegranate
1) pomegranate 1a) as tree 1b) as fruit 1c) as pomegranate shaped ornaments in temple
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pomegranate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POMEGRAN'ATE, noun
[Latin pomum, an apple, and granatum, grained. See Grain and Granate.]
- The fruit of a tree belonging to the genus Punica.
- The tree that produces pomegranates.
- An ornament resembling a pomegranate on the robe and ephod of the Jewish high priest.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.