Strong H7417H7417Cרִמּוֹן
(Rock of) Rimmon
One of the 5 senses of Strong H7417
- Transliteration
- rimmôn rimmôn rimmônô
- Pronunciation
- 1,2 {rim-mone'} rim-mo-no'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location with no gender
Definition
Rimmon was a rock where 600 Benjamite survivors fled after a battle with the other Israelite tribes (Jdg. 20:45, 47; 21:13).
Meaning of the name
Rimmon = "pomegranate"
General definition
The same as H7416; {Rimmon} the name of a Syrian {deity} also of five places in Palestine. The additon of -methoar (the fourth form) is a passive participle of H8388 with the article;
the (one) marked {off} that {is} which pertains; mistaken for part of the name: - {Remmon} Rimmon. The addition -methoar () is המּתאר {hammethô'âr} ham-meth-o-awr; passive participle of H8388 with the article the (one) marked {off} That is6which pertains; mistaken for part of the name.
the (one) marked {off} that {is} which pertains; mistaken for part of the name: - {Remmon} Rimmon. The addition -methoar () is המּתאר {hammethô'âr} ham-meth-o-awr; passive participle of H8388 with the article the (one) marked {off} That is6which pertains; mistaken for part of the name.
In the biblical story
Rimmon
Rock where Benjamites fled after battle
Rimmon was a rock where 600 Benjamite survivors fled after a battle with the other Israelite tribes (Jdg. 20:45, 47; 21:13).
In the Bible
Strong H7417C appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- rimmon3
First verses
- Judges 20:45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
- Judges 20:47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
- Judges 21:13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.