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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - רִמֹּון
רִמֹּון
H7417
Transliteration: Rimmôwn
Pronunciation: rim-mone'
Definition: Remmon
Original: רמּונו רמּן רמּון Transliteration: rimmôn rimmôn rimmônô Phonetic: rim-mone'
BDB Definition:
Rimmon = "pomegranate"- the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus (noun proper deity)
- a Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ishbosheth (noun proper masculine)
- the Rock; a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness in which the 600 Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge (noun proper locative)
- a town in the southern portion of Judah allotted to Simeon (noun proper locative)
- a Levitical city in Zebulun located approximately 6 miles north of Nazareth (noun proper locative)