(Rock of) Rimmon
רִמּוֹןStrong’s H7417rimmon (rim-mon)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Rimmon is the Hebrew word usually translated “rimmon” and “rimmono”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- § Rimmon = "pomegranate"
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.4.2
- § Rimmon = "pomegranate"
How it's translated
- rimmon 13
- and rimmon 1
- rimmono 1
- to rimmon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 3
- Judges 3
- 2 Samuel 3
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 2 Kings 1
- Zechariah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Joshua 15:32And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
- Joshua 19:7Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
- Joshua 19:13And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
- Judges 20:45And 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.
- Judges 20:47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
- Judges 21:13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.
Hebrew dictionary
רִמּוֹן rimmon · Rimmon
§ Rimmon = "pomegranate" n pr dei the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus
רִמּוֹן rimmon · Rimmon
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Sa.4.2; father of: Baanah (H1196), Rechab (H7394) § Rimmon = "pomegranate" a Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ishbosheth
רִמּוֹן rimmon · (Rock of) Rimmon
§ Rimmon = "pomegranate" the Rock; a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness in which the 600 Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.