Rimmôwn — H7417

Definition

masculine locative proper noun

Rimmon, the name of a Syrian deity, also of five places in Palestine

1. Rimmon = "pomegranate"
2. n pr dei
3. the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus
4. n pr m
5. a Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ishbosheth
6. n pr loc
7. the Rock; a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness in which the 600 Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge
8. a town in the southern portion of Judah allotted to Simeon
9. a Levitical city in Zebulun located approximately 6 miles north of Nazareth

Usually translated as

Rimmon, Remmon

Origin

or (shorter) (Rimmôn; or Rimmôwnôw; (1 Chronicles 6:62 (H77)), the same as H7416; in Joshua 19:13: ham-mᵉthôʼâr is mistaken for part of a name; article with the passive participle of H8388; the (one) marked off, i.e. which pertains).

• Same as ʼEbets (H77)
• Same as Rimmôwn (H7416)
• Same as Tâʼar (H8388)

Occurrences

Rimmôwn occurs 16 times in 13 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joshua (3), Judges (3), 2 Samuel (3), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (2), Zechariah (1)

• Joshua 15:32 — And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon (וְרִמּ֑וֹן): all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
• Joshua 19:7 — Ain, Remmon (רִמּ֖וֹן), and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
• Joshua 19:13 — And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar (רִמּ֥וֹן) to Neah;
• Judges 20:45 — And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon (הָֽרִמּ֔וֹן): and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
• Judges 20:47 — But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon (הָֽרִמּ֔וֹן), and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
• Judges 20:47 — But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon (רִמּ֔וֹן) four months.
• Judges 21:13 — And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon (רִמּ֑וֹן), and to call peaceably unto them.
• 2 Samuel 4:2 — And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon (רִמּ֥וֹן) a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:
• 2 Samuel 4:5 — And the sons of Rimmon (רִמּ֤וֹן) the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
• 2 Samuel 4:9 — And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon (רִמּ֥וֹן) the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
• 2 Kings 5:18 — In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon (רִמּוֹן֩) to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
• 2 Kings 5:18 — In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon (רִמֹּ֔ן): when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
• 2 Kings 5:18 — In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon (רִמֹּ֔ן), the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.
• 1 Chronicles 4:32 — And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon (רִמּ֥וֹן), and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
• 1 Chronicles 6:77 — Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon (רִמּוֹנ֖וֹ) with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
• Zechariah 14:10 — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon (לְרִמּ֔וֹן) south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.