Rimmon

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Rimmon (Hebrew "pomegranate") is the proper name for a number of people or objects in the Hebrew Bible:

1. A man of Beeroth (2 Samuel 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. (See Joshua 9:17.)
2. A Syrian cult image, 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 Chronicles 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr. 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" (compare Nehemiah 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron.
4. The Rock of Rimmon was where the Benjamites fled (Judges 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It 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.
5. (pl.Rimmonim) The ornaments of the Torah scroll.
6. Rimmon means a grenade (also rimmon-yadh if it is specifically a hand grenade).
7. An Israeli weekly publishing.

This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.