King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7416
Transliteration: rimmon
Phonetic Spelling: (rim-mone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a pomegranate
Meaning: a pomegranate, the tree, the fruit
Word Summary
rimmon: a pomegranate
Original Word: רִמּוֹןTransliteration: rimmon
Phonetic Spelling: (rim-mone')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a pomegranate
Meaning: a pomegranate, the tree, the fruit
Strong's Concordance
pomegranate Or rimmon {rim-mone'}; from ramam; a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament) -- pomegranate.
see HEBREW ramam
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7416. rimmon
I. רִמּוֺן noun masculineJeremiah 52:23 pomegranate (foreign word of doubtful origin, compare LöwNo.310 HomA.u. A. 97 ff.; Aramaic רוּמָּנָא רִימּוֺנָא,, , Mandean רומאנא NöM.123; Arabic (Aramaic loan-word, Frä142), Ethiopic ); — absolute ׳ר 1 Samuel 14:2 +, רִמֹּן Exodus 39:26 (twice in verse); suffix רִמֹּנִי Song of Solomon 8:2; plural רִמּוֺנִים 1 Kings 7:20 +, etc.; — pomegranate:
1 tree 1 Samuel 14:2, often + תְּאֵנָה גְּפֶן,, etc., Numbers 20:5 (JE), Deuteronomy 8:8; Haggai 2:19; Joel 1:12; Song of Solomon 4:13; 6:11; 7:13.
2 fruit Numbers 13:23 (J E; + תְּאֵנִים עֲנָבִים,); ר ׳עֲסִיס Song of Solomon 8:2, הָר ׳מֶּלַח (in simile) 4:3; 6:7.
3 ornaments in temple, shaped like pomegranates (compare in modern Syria = apaulet, AlmkvistKi. Beiträge zur Lexicogr., etc. NesMarg. 12), 1 Kings 7:18 (on text compare StaZAW iii (1883), 154 f. Kit Benz), 7:20; 7:42; 7:42 "" 2 Chronicles 3:16; 4:13 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 25:17 = Jeremiah 52:22, 22, 23 (twice in verse); so in tabernacle, Exodus 28:33-34, (twice in verse); 39:24-25, (twice in verse); 39:26 (twice in verse).