rimmon

Pomegranates were frequently taken as a model of ornamentation; several places of the Holy Land were named after the tree (Heb., rimmon): Rimmon, Geth-Remmon, En-Rimmon, etc. Poplar, Heb. libneh (Gen., xxx, 37; Osee, iv, 13).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Hadad-rimmon, the scene of the mourning for Josiah, Zech.

Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899

Gath-rimmon for three months (2 Sam. 6: 1-11), at the end of which time David removed it in a grand procession to Jerusalem, where it was kept till a place was prepared for it (12-19).

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

I.e., "grained apple" (pomum granatum), Heb. rimmon.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

+ A Levite, described as a Gittite, (2 Samuel 6: 10,11) that is, probably, a native of the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon in

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Gath-rimmon is probably an error of the transcribers.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Combining this with the pomegranate which was his symbol, Hadad-rimmon would then he the sun-god of the late summer, who ripens the pomegranate and other fruits.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The spot in the valley of Megiddo where the battle was fought was near the town of Hadad-rimmon; hence the lamentation for the death of Josiah was called "the lamentation of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddo," which was so great and so long continued, that the lamentation of Hadad passed afterwards into a proverbial phrase to express any great and extraordinary sorrow (Zec 12: 11).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

He is called a Gittite, either from his residence at Gath, or more probably from Gath-rimmon, one of the Levitical cities (Jos 21: 24, 25).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Hadad-rimmon -- a place or city in the great plain of Esdraelon, the battlefield of many a conflict, near Megiddo; called so from the Syrian idol Rimmon.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871