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Rimmon
also known as: Rimon
Hebrew: רִמּוֹן —transliteration: Rimmown —meaning: pomegranate
This is the name of a biblical man, a Syrian false god, and two places.
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Rimmon, a man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2).
Beeroth is one of the 4 Gibeonite cities. (See Joshua 9:17.)
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Rimmon, a Syrian false god
He is mentioned only in Scripture in the second book of Kings.
In this matter may Yahweh pardon your servant [the Aramean commander Naaman]: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Yahweh pardon your servant in this matter.” —2 Kings 5:18 LSB
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Rimmon, one of the “uttermost cities” of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Joshua 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32)
In Joshua 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chronicles 4:32 (compare Neh. 11:29) the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain Rimmon (`en-rimmon) = the spring of the pomegranates.
It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles southwest of Hebron.
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Rock of Rimmon to which the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for 4 months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated. Of 27-thousand, only 600 survived.
This place 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.
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