pomegranate
rim.mon names pomegranate fruit and its tree, as well as crafted and poetic pomegranate imagery.
The term most often names pomegranate-shaped ornaments made for robes, chains, and pillar capitals. It also occurs for the fruit or tree in lists of produce and cultivation, and in Song of Songs for orchard fruit, bodily comparison, and juice.
Senses in use
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Pomegranate-shaped ornamentation · dominant
Plural forms occur in descriptions of objects made or set in place: in Exodus 28:33 the APB renders pomegranates placed around a robe’s hem, while Exodus 39:25 places bells among them. In 1 Kings 7:42 and Jeremiah 52:23, plural forms designate repeated pomegranate elements arranged around pillar latticework.
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Fruit or tree in cultivated produce · common
In Deuteronomy 8:8 the singular stands within a list of a land’s produce, and Numbers 13:23 uses the plural for items carried with grapes and figs. Joel 1:12 names it among trees of the field that have withered, while Haggai 2:19 asks whether it has borne fruit.
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Poetic orchard, comparison, and juice imagery · common
Song of Songs 4:13 places plural forms in an orchard with choice fruits, and Song of Songs 6:11 mentions them in bud beside flowering vines. Singular forms in Song of Songs 4:3 and Song of Songs 6:7 occur in a comparison for a cheek, while Song of Songs 8:2 has a construct form in the phrase rendered “the juice of the pomegranate.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term as “pomegranates,” whether in produce lists, poetic scenes, or crafted decoration; it also renders Song of Songs 8:2 as “the juice of the pomegranate.” These English expressions confirm the clauses’ setting rather than isolate every form’s contribution.