Dict: smith - RIMMON

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RIMMON - R>@ - (pomegranate) the name of several towns. A city of Zebulun ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:77; kjv@Nehemiah:11:29) a Levitical city, the present Rummaneh , six miles north of Nazareth. A town in the southern portion of Judah, kjv@Joshua:15:3) allotted to Simeon, kjv@Joshua:19:7; kjv@1Chronicles:4:32) probably 13 miles southwest of Hebron. Rimmon-parez (pomegranate of the breach), the name of a march-station in the wilderness. kjv@Numbers:33:19-20) No place now known has been identified with it. Rimmon the Rock, a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness, in which the six hundred Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge. kjv@Judges:20:45-47 kjv@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. A Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ish-bosheth. (2 Samuel 4:2,5,9)

RIMMON - R>@ - a deity worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus, where there was a temple or house of Rimmon. ( kjv@2Kings: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 he the sun-god of the late summer, who ripens the pomegranate and other fruits.