Rimón (Heb. Rimmôn Rimmônô, “pomegranate”). 1. town in southern Judah, near Ain (Jos 15:32; 1Ch 4:32); later the two names were joined and En-rimmon resulted (Neh 11:29). This first belonged to Judah, but was later translated to Simeon (Jos 19:1, 7). It is identified with Khirbet Umm er-Ram~mîn, about 14.5 km north of Beersheba. 2. Zebulun border town assigned to the Merit Levites (Jos 19:13; 1Ch 6:77). Some believe that the Dimna* of Jos 21:35 should read Rimmon (the r was changed to a d, which in post-exilic Hebrew are very similar). The present-day village of Rummâneh, about 9.5 km north-northeast of Nazareth, has retained the name and marks the site of ancient Rimmon. Map VI, C-3. 3. Identification of a rock that served as a refuge for some 600 defeated Benjamites until the other tribes readmitted them to their territory several months later (Jdg 20:45-47; 21:23, 14). This rock has been identified with modern Rammûn, about 5.5 km northeast of Bethel. The village sits on the top of an isolated limestone promontory, with steep dips to the north, west, and south, and caves that may have served as shelters for the outcast. Map VI, E-3. 4. A Benjamite whose two sons killed Ishbosheth, under whom they had served as captains, and brought his head to David expecting a reward from him. Instead they were executed (2Sa 4:2, 5-12). 5. Major god of the Syrians to whose worship a temple in Damascus had been dedicated (2Ki 5:18), believed to have stood on the site now occupied by the great Omayyad mosque. Rimón appears in Mesopotamia as Ramânu, “the thunderer”, one of the 12 great deities. Ramânu was responsible for the rain, the storm, the lightning and thus, in part, for fertility. He was identical to 990 Hadad (Adad), a name that appears in the Bible in proper names such as Hadad-ezer (2Sa 8:3) and Ben-hadad (1Ki 15:18). This God has sometimes been called Hadad-rimmon.* During restoration work on the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, a bas-relief showing the God Hadad-rimmon was discovered. It represents a winged sphinx with a human head and an Egyptian-type crown on the head.
Source: Evangelical Bible Dictionary
(Heb., rimmon, pomegranate).
1. A city near Edom in the southern part of the inheritance of Judah (Jos 15:32), also called En-rimmon (Neh 11:29).
2. A noted rock fortress not far from Gibeah that was called Sela Rimmon, or Rimmon’s Rock (Jdg 20:45-47).
3. A Benjamite of the clan of the Berotites. He had two sons who killed Ishbosheth (2Sa 4:2-12).
4. A Syrian god (2Ki 5:15-19).
5. A village of Simeon’s inheritance (1Ch 4:32).
6. A city of the inheritance of Zebulun (1Ch 6:77).
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(Grenade). Name of a place, a person and a god in the OT.
1. One of the cities assigned to the tribe of Simeon “in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah” (Jos 15:32; Jos 19:1, Jos 19:7). = †¢In-rimmon.
. Locality in one of the borders of the tribe of Zebulón. It was a Levitical city (Jos 19:13; 1Ch 6:77).
. Rock in the desert, near †¢Gabaah, where 600 men who were left alive in the massacre that resulted from the civil war against the tribe of Benjamin hid (Jdg 20:45-47; Jdg 21:13).
. Benjaminite. Father of †¢Baana and †¢Recab, the murderers of †¢Ish-bosheth (2Sa 4:2-9).
. God worshiped by the Syrians. † ¢ Naaman, converted to Jehovah, asked forgiveness if he had to accompany his king in the ceremonies in his temple (2Ki 5:18). He was an Aramaic deity identified with rain, storms, lightning and lightning.
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
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vet, (Heb.: “pomegranate”). (A) Benjamite, father of the two murderers of Ish-bosheth (2 Sam. 4:2). (B) City south of Judah, near Ain (Josh. 15:32; 1 Chr. 4:32; Zech. 14:10). It seems that Rimmon and Ain formed a single conurbation (Neh. 11:29), which was assigned from the beginning to Simeon, along with other cities (Josh. 19:7). Identified with the ruins of Um er-Rumãmîn, about 14 km from Beersheba. (C) City on the border of Zebulun, assigned to the Levites (Josh. 19:13; 1 Chron. 6:77). in Jose. 21:35 the form Dimna is given, which undoubtedly comes from a misreading, the copyist having confused “resh” with “daleth”. The name Rimón has been preserved in that of Rummãneh, a town about 9 km north and slightly east of Nazareth. (D) Rock near Gibeah; six hundred defeated Benjamites took refuge there, remaining in this place for months (Judges 20:45-47; 21:13). It is probably an isolated eminence, made of calcareous rock, a little less than 6 km northeast of Bethel. Some ravines cut off access to this rock from the south, north and west. The fugitives were able to find asylum in their caves. The name of Rimón subsists in the form of Rammûn, a town that is located on the top of the rock.
Source: New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
It seems that there are two towns called Rimón. A town south of Judah, whose full name is Ain Rimmon (En-Rimmon); Joshua 15:32, “Ain” and “Rimmon” are separated by “and”, but surely they are the same. First assigned to Simeon (Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32), it became part of the Negeb district of Judah from Beersheba (Joshua 15:32). The captives who returned from exile settled in En-rimmon (Nehemiah 11:29). In the last chapter Zechariah prophesied that all the hill country of Judea as far south as Rimmon would become a plain, and that Jerusalem would be exalted.
(Zechariah 14:10). Eusebius also mentions that Rimmon was a large Jewish village 16 Roman miles south of Eleutheropolis, in the center of Judea. En-rimmon in southern Judah is generally identified with Khirbet er-Ramamim, 14 km northeast of Beersheba.
The other Rimmon is found at Zebulun (Joshua 19:13) at the southern end of the plain of Asochis (Sahl el Battof), now identified with Rummaneh, a village 9 km northeast of Nazareth.
It became a Levitical city (1 Chronicles 6:77). During the crusades the town was known as Romeneh.
The rock of Rimmon was near Gibeah about 12 miles north of Jerusalem where Gibeah’s 600 Benjamites took refuge for four months, after 25,000 of their men had been killed (Judges 20:45, 47; 21: 13).
Source: Geographic Dictionary of the Bible
(Pomegranate).
1. Benjamite, father of Baanah and Recab, the murderers of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul. He was originally from Beerot, N. of Gibeah. (2Sa 4:2, 5-7, 9.)
2. City of the tribe of Simeon located in the territory of Judah. (Jos 19:1, 2, 7) It is listed after the city of Ain, and Nehemiah 11:29 appears to use the combined form En-rimmon to designate both towns. Zechariah 14:10 indicates that it was towards the S. It is believed that it was located where the ruins of a place called Khirbet Umm er-Ramamin (Horvat Ramalya) are located, about 14 km N. of Beer-sheba.
3. A Levite city of the family of Merari located on the eastern edge of the land of Zebulun (Jos 19:10, 13); it is apparently called “Dimnah” in Joshua 21:35 and “Rimono” in 1 Chronicles 6:77. It is identified with Rummana (Rimón), located about 10 km N. of Nazareth.
4. A rock-like promontory to which the 600 Benjamites who escaped with their lives from the battle at Gibeah, in which all Israel fought against Benjamin to avenge the rape and murder of a Levite’s concubine, retreated. (Jdg 20:45:47) They remained there until emissaries of peace were sent to them. (Jud 21:13.) Located about 6 km E. of Bethel and about 18 km NNE. from Jerusalem, this ancient stronghold, where a small village is located, is known today by the name of Rammun. In this place rises a conical mountain of limestone, protected by ravines on three sides and in which caves abound.
5. Syrian god. Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army, recognized Jehovah as the true God after he was cured of leprosy, but he expressed concern about having to accompany the king of Syria to the temple in Rimmon, for since the king had to lean on his arm, he was forced to bow with it before the idol of Rimmon. (2Ki 5:15-18.)
Rimmon is often identified with Ramman (meaning “Roarer; Thunderer”), a god worshiped in both Assyria and Babylon. Some think that some tribes who later settled in the vicinity of Damascus may have extended the worship of this god westward from Assyria. Several scholars believe that Rimmon (Ramman) was nothing more than a title of Hadad (Adad), the storm god. Since Tabrimmon and Ben-hadad were names of Syrian kings, there is a basis for equating Rimmon with Hadad, since these kings probably bore the name or title of their chief god. (1Ki 15:18.)
There is no doubt that the Rimmon worshiped in Syria had much in common with Ramman. For the Assyrians, the latter was primarily the god of storm and thunder. Although he was believed to be the god of rain and thus the provider of water for wells and fields, Ramman is primarily associated with the destructive aspects of rain and lightning. On Assyrian monuments he is depicted numerous times as a god of war. He was also considered so in Babylon, where Ramman, the moon-god Sin, and the sun-god Shamash constituted one of his numerous triads.
Source: Dictionary of the Bible
1. “Thunderer”, title of Hadad, god of storms (cf. * Hadad-rimmon) that was worshiped in Damascus. In gratitude for being cured of leprosy by Elisha, the commander of the Syrian army, Naaman, asked for as much land in Israel as two mules could carry. He intended to erect an altar on that land in the temple of Rimmon, in order to be able to worship the God of Israel on his own land (2 Kings 5:17–18). It is probable that the temple was located in Damascus, on the site of the Roman temple dedicated to Zeus, whose emblem, like that of Rimmon, was a thunderbolt. The famous Umayyad Mosque stands there today. See JC Greenfield, YER 26, 1976, p. 195–198.
2. Benjamite of Beerot, father of Baana and Recab, who murdered Is-bosheth (2 Sam. 4.2, 9). This proper name, like similar toponyms, if not abbreviated to a form that includes the divine element Rimmon, is probably a derivative of Heb. rimmon, ‘grenade’. See art. Whats Next.
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Douglas, J. (2000). New Biblical Dictionary: First Edition. Miami: United Bible Societies.
Source: New Bible Dictionary
(heb. rimmon, ‘grenade’). 1. En (Ain)-Rimmon is the name of a city in the Negev near Edom that was assigned to Simeon (Jos. 19.7; 1 Chr. 4.32) but incorporated into the district of Beersheba (Jos. 15.32). Zechariah represented it to him as part S of the high plateau seen from Jerusalem (14.10). It was populated by repatriated exiles (Neh. 11.29), and is generally identified with…