Rimmon

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Rimmon
     pomegranate. (1.) A man of Beeroth (2 Sam. 4:2), one of the four
     Gibeonite cities. (See Josh. 9:17.)
     
       (2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in 2 Kings 5:18.
     


       (3.) One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given
     to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chr. 4:32). In Josh. 15:32
     Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr.
     4:32 (comp. Neh. 11:29) the two words are probably to be
     combined, as forming together the name of one place,
     Ain-Rimmon=the spring of the pomegranate. It has been identified
     with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron.
     
       (4.) "Rock of," to which the Benjamites fled (Judg. 20:45, 47;
     21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months
     after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost
     exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It is the
     present village of Rummon, "on the very edge of the hill
     country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley,"
     supposed to be the site of Ai.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Rimmon, exalted; pomegranate