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<h2 id="hebrew-bible">Hebrew Bible</h2> <p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/Pomegranate/m9aqRKUe">Pomegranate § Ancient Israel and Judaism</a></p> <h3>Place-names</h3> <p>Rimmon may refer to: </p> <ul><li>Rimmon, one of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to <a href="/facts/Tribe_of_Simeon/hhqJ26fC">Simeon</a> (Joshua 15:21, 32; 19:7; <a href="/facts/Books_of_Chronicles/8A9f9fUq">1 Chronicles</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Book_of_Nehemiah/l5KQKSnn">Nehemiah</a> 11:29). It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of <a href="/facts/Hebron/FlKSDvJS">Hebron</a>. <a href="/facts/Book_of_Zechariah/YFb3Ep65">Zechariah</a> 14:10 describes it as "south of <a href="/facts/Jerusalem/PKJ8LT0Y">Jerusalem</a>," to distinguish it from other Rimmons; and uses it in conjunction with <a href="/facts/Geba_(city)/qB8MGL76">Geba</a> to describe the latitudinal span of the <a href="/facts/Kingdom_of_Judah/qEdLyxv7">kingdom of Judah</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>The <i>Rock of Rimmon</i>, where the Benjamites fled (<a href="/facts/Book_of_Judges/q1Peog3J">Judges</a> 20:45, 47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the battle at Gibeah. It is the present village of <a href="/facts/Rammun/Ky41MYrT">Rammun</a>, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the <a href="/facts/River_Jordan/dRFFQcxV">Jordan</a> valley", supposed to be the site of <a href="/facts/Ai_(Bible)/dEdrXCPf">Ai</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Israeli settlement <a href="/facts/Rimonim/hQfEoE3Y">Rimonim</a> nearby is named after the biblical place.</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_minor_biblical_places/GB3efDIn">Hadad-Rimmon</a> near <a href="/facts/Tel_Megiddo/ys0Tu3fe">Megiddo</a></li></ul> <h3>Biblical figure</h3> <p>Rimon is mentioned as a man of <a href="/facts/Beeroth_(biblical_city)/4weaTyIA">Beeroth</a> of the <a href="/facts/Tribe_of_Benjamin/AlITYATQ">tribe of Benjamin</a>, whose two sons, <a href="/facts/Baanah/aRGyeQmE">Baanah</a> and <a href="/facts/Rechab/6TzueIHs">Rechab</a>, were captains of the army of <a href="/facts/Ish-bosheth/BN1NAMN1">Ish-bosheth</a>, son of <a href="/facts/King_Saul/0zNv3lna">King Saul</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p> <h3>Syrian deity</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Hadad/YUlp4D1A">Hadad</a></p> <p>Rimmon ("<a href="/facts/Pomegranate/m9aqRKUe">pomegranate</a>" in Hebrew)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> was a <a href="/facts/Aram_(region)/ER1Fe7oT">Syrian</a> deity mentioned in the <a href="/facts/Second_Book_of_Kings/FU2l2xVY">Second Book of Kings</a> (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5:18&version=nkjv">2 Kings 5:18</a>), to whom a temple was dedicated. In Syria, this storm god was also known as <a href="/facts/Hadad/YUlp4D1A">Hadad</a> (interpreted to mean "the breast" in <a href="/facts/Biblical_Hebrew/yCJ3bh30">Biblical Hebrew</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> or <a href="/facts/Baal/47weKvYQ">Baal</a> ("the Lord"), and in Assyria as <a href="/facts/Hadad/YUlp4D1A">Ramanu</a> ("the <a href="/facts/Thunder/maTSnAY5">thunderer</a>", when borrowed from <a href="/facts/Akkadian_language/esQDlrFw"> Akkadian</a> - cf. Akkadian <i>ramanu</i>, "to roar").<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> </p><p>According to the biblical narrative, the Aramean commander <a href="/facts/Naaman/lgHEgG5k">Naaman</a>, having been healed of his <a href="/facts/Leprosy/FSjTpMEB">leprosy</a> by the Israelite prophet <a href="/facts/Elisha/a4mBd4xq">Elisha</a>, requested pardon from God for continuing to minister to the <a href="/facts/List_of_Syrian_monarchs/lXzcRxET">King of Syria</a> who would continue to worship in the Temple of Rimmon. Elisha granted him this pardon.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="extra-biblical-usage">Extra-biblical usage</h2> <ul><li>An adornment of the <a href="/facts/Torah_scroll/d8ScyarP">Torah scroll</a> (usually plural: <i><a href="/facts/Torah_rimonim/9q2jBvT7">Torah rimonim</a></i>), from the Hebrew word for pomegranate.</li></ul> <ul><li>"Rimmon", a poem by <a href="/facts/Rudyard_Kipling/jmHXpRzn">Rudyard Kipling</a> written in 1903 after the <a href="/facts/Boer_War/LSEc1IgQ">Boer War</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a></li> <li>According to <i><a href="/facts/The_Urantia_Book/GrPL628B">The Urantia Book</a></i>, allegedly revealed by celestial beings and published in 1955 in the US, Rimmon was a small city in the region of <a href="/facts/Galilee/4qgALq4a">Galilee</a> which "had once been dedicated to the worship of a Babylonian god of the air, Ramman"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> (see <a href="/facts/Hadad/YUlp4D1A">Hadad</a>/Ramman).</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Rimon_(disambiguation)/mk4dSsGb">Rimon (disambiguation)</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li> The dictionary definition of רימון at Wiktionary</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>M. G. Easton (October 2006). Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Cosimo, Inc. p. 585. ISBN 978-1-59605-947-4. <a href="978-1-59605-947-4" target="_blank">978-1-59605-947-4</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>2 Samuel 4:2 <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+4:2&version=nkjv" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+4:2&version=nkjv</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Tenney, Merrill C., ed. (1975). "Rimmon". Rimmon - Encyclopedia of the Bible - Bible Gateway. The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. Retrieved 29 July 2024 – via BibleGateway. Citing A. Saarisalo, Topographical Researches in Galilee, JPOS, IX (1929), pp. 27-40; F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II (1938), pp. 437 and passim; W. F. Albright, The List of Levitic Cities, Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume (1945), English section, pp. 49-73; Y. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible (1967). <a href="/wiki/Merrill_C._Tenney" target="_blank">/wiki/Merrill_C._Tenney</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Klein, Reuven Chaim (2018). God versus Gods: Judaism in the Age of Idolatry. Mosaica Press. pp. 351–354. ISBN 978-1946351463. OL 27322748M. Retrieved 29 July 2024. <a href="978-1946351463" target="_blank">978-1946351463</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Klein, Reuven Chaim (August 2017). "Nursing from the Good". What's in a Word?. Ohr Somayach. <a href="https://ohr.edu/11764" target="_blank">https://ohr.edu/11764</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Klein (2018), pp.[323-324. <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=Dx9xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA324</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Tenney, Merrill C., ed. (1975). "Rimmon". Rimmon - Encyclopedia of the Bible - Bible Gateway. The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. Retrieved 29 July 2024 – via BibleGateway. Citing A. Saarisalo, Topographical Researches in Galilee, JPOS, IX (1929), pp. 27-40; F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine, II (1938), pp. 437 and passim; W. F. Albright, The List of Levitic Cities, Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume (1945), English section, pp. 49-73; Y. Aharoni, The Land of the Bible (1967). <a href="/wiki/Merrill_C._Tenney" target="_blank">/wiki/Merrill_C._Tenney</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>2 Kings 5:19 <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5:19&version=nkjv" target="_blank">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+5:19&version=nkjv</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Rimmon, from Rudyard Kipling’s Verse, definitive edition, London, 1940, accessed 25 December 2017 <a href="http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Kipling_28_Rimmon.pdf" target="_blank">http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Kipling_28_Rimmon.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>The Urantia Book: First Preaching Tour of Galilee, paper 146:1. p. 1637. <a href="https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-146-first-preaching-tour-galilee/" target="_blank">https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-146-first-preaching-tour-galilee/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>