Bible Location
Meaning: exalted; pomegranate · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Rimmon was a southern town associated with Judah and Simeon, sometimes linked textually with Ain as Ain-rimmon. It is important because it helps map the southern settlements and later appears in prophetic descriptions of the land's breadth. First appears in Josh 15:32.1
AI summary: Rimmon is significant largely through careful geography. The references show how southern town names can appear separately or in combined form, and they keep Rimmon within the southern inheritance network from Joshua through Chronicles and beyond. Zechariah's use of the name in territorial language extends its importance into prophetic spatial imagination. The cross references present Rimmon as a small but persistent southern marker in both settlement and land-description traditions.1
One of the “uttermost cities” of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh. 15:21, 32; 19:7; 1 Chr. 4:32). In Josh. 15:32 Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in 19:7 and 1 Chr. 4:32 (comp. Neh. 11:29) the two words are probably to be combined, as forming together the name of one place, Ain-Rimmon=the spring of the pomegranate. It has been identified with Um er-Rumamin, about 13 miles south-west of Hebron. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.