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Rimmon
Smith's Bible Dictionary
or Rim'mon.
1. A deity, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus, where there was a temple or house of Rimmon. 2 Kings 5:18. Rimmon is, perhaps, the abbreviated form of Hadad-rimmon, Hadad being the sun-god of the Syrians. Combining this with the pomegranate, which was his symbol, Hadad-rimmon would then be the sun-god of the late summer, who ripens the pomegranate and other fruits.
(pomegranate). The name of several towns.
2. A city of Zebulun, 1 Chronicles 6:77; Nehemiah 11:29, a Levitical city, the present Rummaneh, six miles north of Nazareth.
3. A town in the southern portion of Judah, Joshua 15:3, allotted to Simeon, Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32, probably 13 miles southwest of Hebron.
4. Rimmon-parez, (pomegranate of the breach), the name of a march-station in the wilderness. Numbers 33:19-20. No place now known has been identified with it.
5. Rimmon, the Rock, a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness, in which the six hundred Benjamites, who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge. Judges 20:45; Judges 20:47; Judges 21:13. In the wild country which lies on the east of the central highlands of Benjamin, the name is still found attached to a village perched on the summit of a conical chalky hill, visible in all directions, and commanding the whole country.
6. A Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ish-bosheth. 2 Samuel 4:2; 2 Samuel 4:5; 2 Samuel 4:9.
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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Rimmon'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/sbd/r/rimmon.html. 1901.
