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Strong's #7417: Rimmown (pronounced rim-mone')

or (shorter) Rimmon {rim-mone'}; or Rimmownow (1 Chronicles 6:62 (77)) {rim-mo-no'}; the same as 7416; Rimmon, the name of a Syrian deity, also of five places in Palestine:--Remmon, Rimmon. The addition "-methoar" (Josh. 19:13) is ham-mthonar {ham-meth-o-awr'}; passive participle of 8388 with the article; the (one) marked off, i.e. which pertains; mistaken for part of the name.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ / ּ

rimmôn / rimmônô

Rimmon = "pomegranate"

1) the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus (noun proper deity)

2) a Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ishbosheth (noun proper masculine)

3) the Rock; a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness in which the 600 Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge (noun proper locative)

4) a town in the southern portion of Judah allotted to Simeon (noun proper locative)

5) a Levitical city in Zebulun located approximately 6 miles north of Nazareth (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: the same as H7416



Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

Joshua 15:32: "And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine,"
Joshua 19:7: "Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:"
Joshua 19:13: "on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah;"
Judges 20:45: "toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand"
Judges 20:47: "to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four"
Judges 20:47: "Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months."
Judges 21:13: "of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably"
2 Samuel 4:2: "of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin:"
2 Samuel 4:5: "And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat"
2 Samuel 4:9: "and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the LORD liveth,"
2 Kings 5:18: "that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth"
2 Kings 5:18: "my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD"
2 Kings 5:18: "of Rimmon: when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this"
1 Chronicles 4:32: "And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:"
1 Chronicles 6:77: "were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor"
Zechariah 14:10: "shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up,"









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