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== | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53675" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> <strong> RIMMON </strong> (god). <em> [[Rimmon]] </em> is the Hebraized form of <em> Rammân </em> , the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] air-, weather-, and storm god assimilated by popular etymology to the word for ‘pomegranate.’ He is mentioned, however (in 2 Kings 5:18 ), not as a Palestinian or Babylonian, but as a Syrian, deity, who was honoured as the chief god of Damascus. [[Elsewhere]] there are many Indications that the chief Aramæan divinity was called by that people not Rimmon or Rammân, but <strong> [[Hadad]] </strong> (wh. see). Rammân (meaning the thunderer) was, in fact, indigenous in Babylonia, where he played a great mythological and religious rôle, in his twofold aspect of a beneficent deity, as the giver of rain, and of a maleficent, as the maker of storms and the wielder of the thunderbolt. His symbol was the axe and a bundle of lightning-darts. He was thus in some features the analogue of [[Zeus]] or [[Jupiter]] and Thor. </p> <p> In Assyria, both the [[Aram]] [Note: ram Aramaic.] , and the Bab. [Note: Babylonian.] forms of the name were current (see Hadad). The currency of the latter among the Hebrews (as <em> Rimmon </em> ) is to be attributed to the long [[Babylonian]] occupation of [[Palestine]] before Aramæan times. The same combination as the [[Assyrian]] is indicated in the Biblical Hadad-rimmon (wh. see). </p> <p> J. F. McCurdy. </p> <p> The emblem of Rammân was the bull, and the widespread cult of the air-god may have had something to do with nationalizing the worship of [[Jahweh]] as represented by that animal. Cf. also the name <strong> Tab-rimmon </strong> . </p> <p> J. F. McCurdy. </p> | ||
== | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_7777" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> ''''' rim´on ''''' : </p> <p> (1) The rock Rimmon ( רמון סלע , <i> ''''' ṣela‛ ''''' </i> <i> ''''' rimmōn ''''' </i> ; ἡ πέτρα Ῥεμμών , <i> ''''' hē ''''' </i> <i> ''''' pétra ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Rhemmṓn ''''' </i> ): The place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of [[Gibeah]] ( <i> ''''' Jeba‛ ''''' </i> ) who "turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months" ( Judges 20:45 , Judges 20:47; Judges 21:13 ). Robinson's identification ( <i> RB </i> , I, 440) has been very generally accepted. He found a conical and very prominent hill some 6 miles North-Northeast of <i> ''''' Jeba‛ ''''' </i> upon which stands a village called <i> ''''' Rummōn ''''' </i> . This site was known to [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] (OS 146 6; 287 98), who describe it as 15 Roman miles from Jerusalem. Another view, which would locate the place of refuge of the Benjamites in the <i> ''''' Mughāret ''''' </i> <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> <i> ''''' jai ''''' </i> , a large cavern on the south of the <i> ''''' Wâdy ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Suweinı̂t ''''' </i> , near <i> ''''' Jeba‛ ''''' </i> , is strongly advocated by Rawnsley and Birch (see <i> PEF </i> , III, 137-48). The latter connects this again with 1 Samuel 14:2 , where Saul, accompanied by his 600, "abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah" under the pomegranate tree (Rimmon). </p> <p> (2) ( רמּון , <i> ''''' rimmōn ''''' </i> ; Ἐρεμμών , <i> ''''' Eremmṓn ''''' </i> , or Ῥεμμώθ , <i> ''''' Rhemmṓth ''''' </i> ): A city in the Negeb, near the border of Edom, ascribed to Judah ( Joshua 15:32 ) and to [[Simeon]] ( Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32 , the King James Version "Remmon"). In Zechariah 14:10 it is mentioned as the extreme South of Judah - "from [[Geba]] to Rimmon, South of Jerusalem." In the earlier references Rimmon occurs in close association with <i> ''''' ‛Ain ''''' </i> (a spring), and in Nehemiah 11:29 , what is apparently the same place, <i> ''''' ‛Ain ''''' </i> <i> ''''' rimmon ''''' </i> , is called <i> ''''' En ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' rimmon ''''' </i> (which see). </p> <p> (3) ( רמּון , <i> ''''' rimmōn ''''' </i> ( Joshua 19:13 ), רמונה , <i> ''''' rimmōnāh ''''' </i> , in some [[Hebrew]] manuscripts דּמנה , <i> ''''' dimāh ''''' </i> (see [[Dimnah]] ) ( Joshua 21:35 ), and רמּונו , <i> ''''' rimmōnō ''''' </i> ( 1 Chronicles 6:77 )): In the King James Version we have "Remmon-methoar" in Joshua 19:13 , but the Revised Version (British and American) translates the latter as "which stretcheth." This was a city on the border of [[Zebulun]] ( Joshua 19:13 ) allotted to the [[Levites]] ( Joshua 21:35 , "Dimnah"; 1 Chronicles 6:77 ). The site is now the little village of <i> ''''' Rummāneh ''''' </i> on a low ridge South of the western end of the marshy plain <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> <i> ''''' Baṭṭauf ''''' </i> in Galilee; there are many rock-cut tombs and cisterns. It is about 4 miles North of <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> <i> ''''' [[Mesh]] ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' hed ''''' </i> , usually considered to be the site of Gath-hepher. See <i> PEF </i> , I, 363, Sh VI. </p> | ||
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<ref name=" | <ref name="term_53675"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/rimmon+(1) Rimmon from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref> | ||
<ref name=" | <ref name="term_7777"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/international-standard-bible-encyclopedia/rimmon+(1) Rimmon from International Standard Bible Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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