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(1) The rock Rimmon (רמון סלע, sÌ£ela‛ rimmoÌ„n; ἡ πεÌÏ„Ïα ῬεμμωÌν, heÌ„ peÌtra RhemmoÌ„Ìn): The place of refuge of the 600 surviving Benjamites of Gibeah (Jeba‛) who “turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months†(, ; ). Robinson's identification (RB, I, 440) has been very generally accepted. He found a conical and very prominent hill some 6 miles North-Northeast of Jeba‛ upon which stands a village called RummoÌ„n. This site was known to Eusebius and Jerome (OS 146 6; 287 98), who describe it as 15 Roman miles from Jerusalem. Another view, which would locate the place of refuge of the Benjamites in the MughaÌ„ret el jai, a large cavern on the south of the WaÌ‚dy Suweinı̂t, near Jeba‛, is strongly advocated by Rawnsley and Birch (see PEF, III, 137-48). The latter connects this again with , where Saul, accompanied by his 600, “abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah†under the pomegranate tree (Rimmon).
(2) (רמּון, rimmoÌ„n; ἘÏεμμωÌν, EremmoÌ„Ìn, or ῬεμμωÌθ, RhemmoÌ„Ìth): A city in the Negeb, near the border of Edom, ascribed to Judah () and to Simeon (; , the King James Version “Remmonâ€). In it is mentioned as the extreme South of Judah - “from Geba to Rimmon, South of Jerusalem.†In the earlier references Rimmon occurs in close association with ‛Ain (a spring), and in , what is apparently the same place, ‛Ain rimmon, is called En-rimmon (which see).
(3) (רמּון, rimmoÌ„n (), ×¨×ž×•× ×”, rimmoÌ„naÌ„h, in some Hebrew manuscripts ×“Ö¼×ž× ×”, dimaÌ„h (see DIMNAH) (), and ×¨×žÖ¼×•× ×•, rimmoÌ„noÌ„ ()): In the King James Version we have “Remmon-methoar†in , but the Revised Version (British and American) translates the latter as “which stretcheth.†This was a city on the border of Zebulun () allotted to the Levites (, “Dimnahâ€; ). The site is now the little village of RummaÌ„neh on a low ridge South of the western end of the marshy plain el BatÌ£tÌ£auf in Galilee; there are many rock-cut tombs and cisterns. It is about 4 miles North of el Mesh-hed, usually considered to be the site of Gath-hepher. See PEF, I, 363, Sh VI.