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Rimmon

Ἐρεμμὼν

Rimmon (Ἐρεμμὼν), a city of the tribe of Simeon (Josh. 19.7), mentioned by Zechariah as the extremity of the land of Judah (14.10). Placed by Eusebius S. of Daroma, 16 miles from Eleutheropolis. (Onomast. s. vv. Ἐρεμβὼν, Ῥέμμα.) He places another town of the same name 15 miles north of Jerusalem. (lb. s. v. Ῥεμμοῦς.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.