POMEGRANATE
(Heb.: “pomegranate”). (A) Benjamite, father of the two murderers of Ishbosheth (2 Sam. 4:2).
(B) City south of Judah, near Ain (Josh. 15:32; 1 Chron. 4:32; Zech. 14:10). It appears that Rimmon and Ain formed a single conurbation (Neh. 11:29), which was assigned from the beginning to Simeon, along with other cities (Josh. 19:7). Identified with the ruins of Um er-Rumãmîn, about 14 km from Beersheba.
(C) City on the border of Zebulun, assigned to the Levites (Josh. 19:13; 1 Chron. 6:77). In Joseph. 21:35 the form Dimna is given, which undoubtedly comes from a reading error, the copyist having confused “resh” with “daleth.”
The name Rimón has been preserved in that of Rummãneh, a town about 9 km north and slightly east of Nazareth.
(D) Rock near Gibea; Six hundred defeated Benjamites took refuge there, remaining in this place for months (Judges 20:45-47; 21:13).
It is probably an isolated eminence, made of calcareous rock, a little less than 6 km northeast of Bethel. Some ravines cut off access to this rock from the south, north and west.
The fugitives were able to find refuge in their caves. The name of Rimón subsists in the form of Rammûn, a town that is at the top of the rock.