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Strong's #7417 - רִמּוֹנוֹ
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Rimmon = “pomegranate”
1) the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus (noun proper deity)
2) a Benjamite of Beeroth, the father of Rechab and Baanah, the murderers of Ishbosheth (noun proper masculine)
3) the Rock; a cliff or inaccessible natural fastness in which the 600 Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge (noun proper locative)
4) a town in the southern portion of Judah allotted to Simeon (noun proper locative)
5) a Levitical city in Zebulun located approximately 6 miles north of Nazareth (noun proper locative)
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III. רִמּוֺן proper name, masculine in Benjamin, 2 Samuel 4:2,5,9; Ρεμμων.
IV. רִמּוֺן proper name, of a location 1. in סֶלַע הָרִמּוֺן cliff of R. Judges 20:45,47, רִמּוֺן׳ס Judges 20:47; Judges 21:13; Ρεμμων; = modern cliff Rammôn, east from Bethel, Buhl G 100, compare GFM Judges 2 0,45.
2 in southern Judah, ׳עַיִן וְר Joshua 15:32; ׳עַיִן ר Joshua 19:7 (both P), 1 Chronicles 4:32; = ׳ר Zechariah 14:10; Ρεμμων[θ], etc.; see עַיִן
2, p. 745, and עֵין רִמּוֺן.
3 in Zebulun Joshua 19:13 (Ρεμμωνα(μ)), = רִמּוֺנוֺ 1 Chronicles 6:62 (Ρεμμων); + Joshua 21:35 (read רִמֹּנָה for דִּמְנָה Di Benn Steuern); modern Rummâne, approximately 6 miles east of north from Nazareth (Buhl G 221).