Pomegranate
רִמּוֹן (rimmon)
Plant food — the dietary laws of Leviticus 11 concern animals
Would you eat it?
Mentioned in 25 verses (KJV)
Description
Pomegranates were prized for their tart, ruby seeds and their striking crown-shaped blossom, and they grew well enough in Canaan to count among the land’s defining crops. Their image decorated sacred spaces long after the fruit itself was eaten.
Key verses
“A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;”
Deuteronomy 8:8
“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 4:3
Symbolism
Beauty compared to the Beloved — ‘thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate’ (Song of Solomon 4:3).
Fun fact
Pomegranates were embroidered along the hem of the high priest’s robe and cast in bronze atop the temple’s great pillars (Exodus 28:34; 1 Kings 7:20).
All 25 referencesshow
- 1 Kings 7:18
- 1 Kings 7:20
- 1 Kings 7:42
- 1 Samuel 14:2
- 2 Chronicles 3:16
- 2 Chronicles 4:13
- 2 Kings 25:17
- Deuteronomy 8:8
- Exodus 28:33
- Exodus 28:34
- Exodus 39:24
- Exodus 39:25
- Exodus 39:26
- Haggai 2:19
- Jeremiah 52:22
- Jeremiah 52:23
- Joel 1:12
- Numbers 13:23
- Numbers 20:5
- Song of Solomon 4:3
- Song of Solomon 4:13
- Song of Solomon 6:7
- Song of Solomon 6:11
- Song of Solomon 7:12
- Song of Solomon 8:2