rimon · pomegranate

What it means

rimon (רִמּוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pomegranate”.

(the fruit) or pomegranate tree; also an ornament in that shape.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The tree that bears pomegranates, one of the good land's fruits.
2. The red many-seeded fruit, or an ornament shaped like it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pomegranates ×23
• pomegranate ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Song of Songs×6
• Jeremiah×4
• Joel×1
• Haggai×1

• Exodus 28:33

  On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, on its hem all around, and bells of gold between them all around:

• Exodus 28:34

  a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around.

• Exodus 39:24

  And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet, twisted.

• Exodus 39:25

  And they made bells of pure gold and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around, between the pomegranates:

• Exodus 39:26

  a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around, for ministering, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 13:23

  And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a carrying pole between two men, and also some of the pomegranates and of the figs.

• Numbers 20:5

  And why have you brought us up from Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”

• Deuteronomy 8:8

  a land of wheat and barley, of vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, a land of olive trees for oil and of honey;

• 1 Samuel 14:2

  Saul was sitting at the edge of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree that is in Migron; and the people who were with him were about six hundred men.

• 1 Kings 7:18

  And he made the pillars, and two rows all around on the one net to cover the capitals that were on the head of the pomegranates; and so he made for the second capital.

• 1 Kings 7:20

  And the capitals on the two pillars were also above, close to the belly that was beside the net; and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows all around on the second capital.

• 1 Kings 7:42

  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two nets, two rows of pomegranates for each net, to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• 2 Kings 25:17

  Eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a capital of bronze was on it, and the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze; and like these was the second pillar, with the network.

• 2 Chronicles 3:16

  He made chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on the top of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

• 2 Chronicles 4:13

  and the four hundred pomegranates for the two nets, two rows of pomegranates for each net, to cover the two globes of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• Song of Songs 4:3

  Like a thread of scarlet are your lips, and your speech is lovely; like a slice of pomegranate is your temple behind your veil.

• Song of Songs 4:13

  Your shoots are a park of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard,

• Song of Songs 6:7

  Like a slice of pomegranate is your temple behind your veil.

• Song of Songs 6:11

  To the garden of walnut trees I went down to see the green shoots of the valley, to see whether the vine had blossomed, whether the pomegranates had budded.

• Song of Songs 7:12

  Let us rise early to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has blossomed, whether the blossom has opened, whether the pomegranates have budded; there I will give my love to you.

• Song of Songs 8:2

  I would lead you, I would bring you into the house of my mother; you would teach me; I would give you to drink of the spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranates.

• Jeremiah 52:22

  And a capital of bronze was on it, and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze; and like these was the second pillar, with pomegranates.

• Jeremiah 52:23

  And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred on the network all around.

• Joel 1:12

  The vine has dried up, and the fig tree languishes; pomegranate, palm too, and apple tree, all the trees of the field have dried up; for joy has dried up from among human beings.

• Haggai 2:19

  Is the seed still in the barn? And even the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. From this day I will bless.”

And 7 more times.