4. (Heb. Rimmono', ira"!. his pomegranate ; Sept. i)
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'Pf/iuwj'.) A city of Zebulun belonging to the ]Merar- Junius and Tremellius, and Luther. Symraachus ren- ite Levites (1 Clinin. vi, 77). There is great discrep- [ dered ^Nr's^n, a descriptive epithet attached to Rim-
ancv between the list in which it occurs and the paral- lel "catalogue of Josh. xxi. The former contains two names in place of the four of the latter, and neither of them the same. Hut it is not impossible that Dimnah (Josli.xxi.o5) may have been originally Rimraon,as the 1) and R in Hebrew are notoriously easy to confound. At any rate there is no reason for supposing that Rim- mono is not identical with Rimmon of Zebulun (xix, 13), in the A. V. Remmon-methoar (q. v.). The redundant letter was probably transferred, in copying, from the succeeding word— at an early date, since all the MSS. appear to exhibit it, as does also the Targum of Joseph. 5. The Rock Rimmon (Heb. Sela ha- Rimmon, "|1B^n [also without the article] J"bp ; Sept. >} -KiTpa Tou 'Pt^ifuop ; Josephus, Tr'trpa 'Poci ; Vulg. j>etra cu- jiis vvcabulum est Riinmon ; petra liemmuii), a cliff (such seems rather the force of the Hebrew word sela) or inaccessible natural fastness, in which the six hun- dred Benjamites who escaped the slaughter of Gibeah took refuge, and maintained themselves for four months until released by the act of the general body of the tribes (Judg. xx, 45, 47; xxi, 13). It is described as in the "wilderness" {midhur), that is, the wild, uncul- tivated (though not unproductive) country which lies on the east of the central higlilands of Benjamin, on which Gibeah was situated — between them and the Jordan valley. This is doubtless the Rimmon which Kusebius and Jerome mention, locating it tifteen miles north of Jerusalem {Onomast. s. v. "Remmon"). About ten miles north of Jerusalem, and nearly four east of Bethel, is a very conspicuous white limestone tell, rising like a cone above the neighboring hill-tops, and over- looking the whole wilderness down to the Jordan val- ley. Upon it stands a large modern village called Rum- mon. This is unquestionably the "Rock Rimmon" on which the Benjamites took refuge. It is admirably ada])ted for the purpose. A deep and wild ravine cuts oft the approach from the south, and others skirt its western and northern sides, rendering it a natural for- tress of great strength. The sides of the tell are steep.
bare, and rocky, and could be defended by a few reso- ] Eccles. Bioq. s. v.
lute men against a host. The top is rounded, affording
ample space for the refugees, while along the sides are
some large caverns (Robinson, Bib. Res. in, 290; Van
(le Yeliie, Meuwir, p. 344; Porter, Ihmdbook, p. 217;
Schwarz, Palest, p. 129).
Rirn'mon Metho'ar (Ileb. Rimmon' ham-Me- Ihodr', '^'ii.T'CiT^ "|"153"], i. e. Rivimon the extensive i Sept. 'Pf/<//aii'oa Ma^apao'Ca v. r. 'Pi^nwvan ixa^apifi;
mon, " Rimmon the Renowned" (Rosenmiiller, ad loc). This Rimmon does not appear to have been known to Eusebiiis and Jerome, but it is mentioned by the early traveller Parchi, who says that it is called Rumaueh, and stands an hour south of Sepphoris (Zunz, Benjamin, ii, 433). If for south we read north, this is in close agree- ment Avith the statements of Robinson (Bib. Res. iii, 110) and Yan de Yelde (J/e/HOtV, p.344), who place Ruimndneh on the south border of the plain of Buttauf, three miles north-northeast of Seffurieh (comp. Pococke, Trur. ii, G2 ; Thomson, Land and Book, ii, 123 ; De Saulcy, Bead Sea, i, 69).
Rimmon is not improbably identical with the Levit- ical city which in Josh, xxi, 35 appears in the form of Dimnah, and again, in the parallel lists of Chronicles (1 Chron. vi, 77) as Rimmono (A. Y. "Rimmon").
Rini'mon Pa'rez (Heb. Rimmon' Pe'retz, ""JS"! V"I5 [in pause, Pa'rets, V'^Q], jMmegranate of the breach, so called probably from some local configura- tion; Sept. 'PepjAuiv <i>opff), the second-named station of the Israelites in the desert after leaving Hazeroth, and located between Rithmah andLibnah (Numb.xxxiii, 20). It was somewhere in the northern interior of the Desert et-Tih, west of Kadesh-Barnea. See Exoue.
Hin, in Norse my thology, was the name of one of the rivers of hell.
Rinaldi, OnoRic, a learned Italian ecclesiastical historian of the 17th century, was a native of Treviso, and was educated at Parma by the Jesuits. He became an Oratorian at Rome in 1G18. After the death of car- dinal Baronius (who was also a member of the Congre- gation of the Oratory), Rinaldi wrote a continuation of his Ecclesiastical Annals from 1198 (where the former left off) to 1564, when the Council of Trent was dissolved. Rinaldl's addition to the work consists of ten large folio volumes, published at different periods from 1646 to 1677. Rinaldi was also the author of a sufficiently copi- ous abridgment in Italian of the whole J ««»/.<, compiled by Baronius and himself.— Chalmers, Bio(/. Diet. ; Hook,
Hinda, in Norse mythology, was one of Odin's wives, the mother of Wali, who became so strong in a single night that he was able to slav Hoeder, the murderer of Balder.
Ring (usually ry2^, fabba'ath; SciktvXoc, occa- sionally P^?5, ffalil, a circlet for the fingers, Esth. i, 6 ; Cant, v, 14. 33, gab, a rim of a wheel, Ezek. i, 18). The ring was regarded as an indispensable article of a