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RIMMON.—1. A Beerothite (2Sa_4:2; 2Sa_4:5; 2Sa_4:9). 2. The rock whither the remnants of the Benjamites fled (Jdg_20:45; Jdg_21:13). It has been identified with a lofty rock or conical chalky hill, visible in all directions, on the summit of which stands the village of Rummôn, about 3 miles E. of Bethel. 3. A city in the south of Judah, towards the border of Edom, Jos_15:32; in Jos_19:7 counted to Simeon; In Zec_14:10 named as lying to the far south of Jerusalem. See, further, En-rimmon. 4. In Jos_19:13 one of the boundaries of Zebulun is given as ‘Rimmon which stretcheth to the Nç‘âh’ (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] wrongly ‘Remmonmethoar to Neah’). In 1Ch_6:77 [Heb. 62] the name appears as Rimmono, and in Jos_21:35 as Rimmonah (for which, by a textual error, MT [Note: Massoretic Text.] has Dimnah). This Rimmon is the modern Rummâneh, north of Nazareth.