Rimmon
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Rimmon or Rimon (Hebrew: רִמּוֹן, romanized: Rīmmōn) is a Hebrew word meaning 'pomegranate'. It appears as a name in the Hebrew Bible where, when translated to Greek, it takes the form Remmon Ρεμμων, Remmōn).
Hebrew Bible
Place-names
Rimmon may refer to:
- 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 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" (compare Nehemiah 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron. Zechariah 14:10 describes it as "south of Jerusalem," to distinguish it from other Rimmons; and uses it in conjunction with Geba to describe the latitudinal span of the kingdom of Judah.
- The Rock of Rimmon, where the Benjamites fled ( nearby is named after the biblical place.
- Hadad-Rimmon near Megiddo
Biblical figure
Rimon is mentioned as a man of
King Saul.[2]
Syrian deity
Rimmon was a Syrian deity mentioned only in the
Second Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:18), to whom a temple was dedicated. In Syria, this deity was known as Baal ("the Lord" par excellence), and in Assyria as Ramanu
("the Thunderer").
According to the biblical narrative, the Aramean commander Naaman, having been healed of his leprosy by the Israelite prophet Elisha, requested pardon from God for continuing to minister to the King of Syria who would continue to worship in the Temple of Rimmon. Elisha granted him this pardon.[3]
Extra-biblical usage
- An adornment of the Torah rimonim), from the Hebrew word for pomegranate.
- "Rimmon", a poem by Boer War.[4]
- According to The Urantia Book, allegedly revealed by celestial beings and published in 1955 in the US, Rimmon was a small city in the region of Galilee which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman"[5] (see Hadad/Ramman).
See also
References
- ISBN 978-1-59605-947-4.
- ^ 2 Samuel 4:2
- ^ 2 Kings 5:19
- ^ Rimmon, from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, definitive edition, London, 1940, accessed 25 December 2017
- ^ The Urantia Book: First Preaching Tour of Galilee, paper 146:1. p. 1637.
External links
The dictionary definition of רימון at Wiktionary
