Rimmon: meaning of the name

Rimmon in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Rimmon in the Bible

• Rimmon

  3 verses · first mentioned in 2 Samuel 4:2

Places named Rimmon

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Rimmon in Scripture

“Rimmon” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Numbers 33:19

  And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez.

• Numbers 33:20

  And they departed from Rimmon–parez, and pitched in Libnah.

• Joshua 15:32

  And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

• Judges 20:45

  And 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 20:47

  But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

• Judges 21:13

  And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

• 2 Samuel 4:2

  And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

• 2 Samuel 4:5

  And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish–bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.