רִמּוֹן rimmon

Hebrew word for “pomegranate” · Strong’s H7416 · used 32 times in 25 verses

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Meaning

1) pomegranate; 1a) as tree; 1b) as fruit; 1c) as pomegranate shaped ornaments in temple

How it is translated

Glosses given for rimmon in context, with how often each is used:

• pomegranates 20
• pomegranate 10
• pomegranate tree 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 39 (3), 1 Kings 7 (3), Exodus 28 (2), Song of Solomon 4 (2), Song of Solomon 6 (2), Jeremiah 52 (2), Numbers 13 (1), Numbers 20 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), 1 Samuel 14 (1)

Forms

• הרמנים 7
• ורמון 4
• הרמון 3
• רמונים 3
• הרמונים 3
• רמני 2
• ורמן 2
• ורמונים 2
• רמוני 1
• והרמונים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with rimmon more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• שְׂבָכָה sevakhah “latticework” 7
• כֹּתֶרֶת koteret “capital” 6
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 9
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 7
• שׁוּל shul “hem” 5
• גֶּפֶן gephen “vine” 6
• פַּעֲמֹן paamon “bell” 4
• תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 5
• טוּר tur “row” 4
• מְעִיל meil “robe” 4
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 6
• אֶחָד echad “one” 6

Key verses

The verses using rimmon that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 28:33 — And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them…
• Exodus 28:34 — A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
• Numbers 13:23 — And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they…
• Deuteronomy 8:8 — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
• 2 Kings 25:17 — The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and…
• Song of Solomon 4:3 — Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
• Song of Solomon 4:13 — Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
• Song of Solomon 6:11 — I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
• Song of Solomon 7:12 — Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee…
• Song of Solomon 8:2 — I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
• Joel 1:12 — The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are…
• Haggai 2:19 — Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.