HebrewH7417Noun

רִמּוֹן

rim.mon

12Occurrences
H7417Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

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

or (shorter) (רִמֹּן; or רִמּוֹנוֹ; (1 Chronicles 6:62 (H77 (אֶבֶץ))), the same as H7416 (רִמּוֹן); in Joshua 19:13: הַמְּתֹאָר is mistaken for part of a name; article with the passive participle of H8388 (תָּאַר); the (one) marked off, i.e. which pertains).

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Rimmon = "pomegranate" n pr dei the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N-M-T

Full Description

N:N-M-T

Occurrences

רִמּוֹן appears 12 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Samuel
3
Judges
3
Joshua
3
1 Chronicles
1
2 Kings
1
Zechariah
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 4:32BSB

And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—

2 Samuel 4:2BSB

Saul’s son had two men who were leaders of raiding parties. One was named Baanah and the other Rechab; they were sons of Rimmon the Beerothite of the tribe of Benjamin—Beeroth is considered part of Benjamin,

2 Samuel 4:9BSB

But David answered Rechab and his brother Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life from all distress,

Judges 20:47BSB

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

Joshua 15:32BSB

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.

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