Rimmon orRimon (Hebrew:רִמּוֹן,romanized: Rīmmōn) is a Hebrew word meaning 'pomegranate'. It appears as a name in theHebrew Bible where, when translated toGreek, it takes the formRemmon Ρεμμων,Remmōn).
Rimmon, one of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given toSimeon (Joshua 15:21, 32; 19:7;1 Chronicles 4:32). In Joshua 15:32, Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in Joshua 19:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:32 the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon = "the spring of the pomegranate" (compareNehemiah 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, orHorvat Rimmon, about 13 miles south-west ofHebron.Zechariah 14:10 describes it as "south ofJerusalem," to distinguish it from other Rimmons; and uses it in conjunction withGeba to describe the latitudinal span of thekingdom of Judah.
TheRock of Rimmon, where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah. It is the present village ofRammun, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward theJordan valley", supposed to be the site ofAi.[5] Israeli settlementRimonim nearby is named after the biblical place.
According to the biblical narrative, the Aramean commanderNaaman, having been healed of hisleprosy by the Israelite prophetElisha, requested pardon from God for continuing to minister to theKing of Syria who would continue to worship in the Temple of Rimmon. Elisha granted him this pardon.[10]
According toThe Urantia Book, allegedly revealed by celestial beings and published in 1955 in the US, Rimmon was a small city in the region ofGalilee which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman"[12] (seeHadad/Ramman).
^abcdTenney, Merrill C., ed. (1975). "Rimmon".Rimmon - Encyclopedia of the Bible - Bible Gateway.The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. Retrieved29 July 2024 – via BibleGateway. CitingA. Saarisalo,Topographical Researches in Galilee, JPOS, IX (1929), pp. 27-40;F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II (1938), pp. 437 and passim;W. F. Albright,The List of Levitic Cities, Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume (1945), English section, pp. 49-73;Y. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible (1967).Cite error: The named reference "Zon" was defined multiple times with different content (see thehelp page).
The dictionary definition ofרימון at Wiktionary