リモン
説明
ユダ族の領土の南部にある町 [ヨシュア 15:32 ]。この町はシメオン族に割り当てられた [ヨシュア 19:7 ]。旧約聖書では、この町は常に*アインの町と関連付けられている [代一 4:32 ]。捕囚からの帰還後、エン・レモン、すなわちアイン・レモンという複合名でのみ現れ、両方の場所が一つに統合されたことを示している [ネヘミヤ 11:29]。しばしばベエル・シェバの北約14kmにあるウム・ルマミムの遺跡と同定される。
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Rimmon
pomegranate.
(1.) A man of Beeroth (2Sam 4:2), one of the four Gibeonite cities. [See (Josh 9:17)].
(2.) A Syrian idol, mentioned only in (2Kings 5:18).
(3.) One of the "uttermost cities" of Judah, afterwards given to Simeon (Josh 15:21; 15:32; 19:7; 1Chr 4:32). In (Josh 15:32) Ain and Rimmon are mentioned separately, but in (Josh 19:7) and (1Chr 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.
(4.) "Rock of," to which the Benjamites fled (Judg 20:45; 20:47; 21:13), and where they maintained themselves for four months after the fearful battle at Gibeah, in which they were almost exterminated, 600 only surviving out of about 27,000. It is the present village of Rummon, "on the very edge of the hill country, with a precipitous descent toward the Jordan valley," supposed to be the site of Ai.
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary