Strong's Lexicon

H3760

H3760 — כַּרמֶל

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewKarmelName/l.Occurrences: 24TWOT: 1042

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3760
Word:כַּרמֶל
Part of Speech:Name/l.
Etymology:the same as H3759
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:24
Transliteration:Karmel
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:kar-mel'
Meaning:1. Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Israel
KJV Renderings:Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place).

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4201

II. כַּרְמֶל proper name [of a mountain and city] Carmel: —

1. mountain-promontory on Mediterranean, with fertile slopes, Tel el-Amarna (Ginti- ) Kirmil, JastrJBL xi. 1892, 115 ; Josh 19:26 , ׳ הַרהַֿכּ 1Kgs 18:19; 1Kgs 18:20; 2Kgs 2:25; 2Kgs 4:25 ׳ ראֹשׁ הַכּ Amos 1:2; Amos 9:3; 1Kgs 18:42 with article also Josh 12:22 and, + בָּשָׁן, Jer 50:19, as pasturage (in figurative of Israel as flock of ׳ י), compare (׳ כ without article) Mic 7:14 (less probably rend. garden-land, I. כַּרְמִל, so We GASm); ׳ הַכּ Isa 35:2 ( + הַלְּבָּנוֺן הַשָּׁרוֺן) ׳ כ Isa 33:9 (+ לְבָנוֺן הַשָּׁרוֺן and בָּשָׁן, marking extent of land), Nah 1:4 (+ לְבָנוֺן בָּשָׁן); כְּכַרְמֶל בַּיָּם Jer 46:18 (simile of Nebuchadnezzar); Song 7:6 ׳ ראֹשֵׁךְ עָלַיִךְ כַּכּ (but see כַּרְמִיל ); — on Carmel see GASmG. 337 ff. BuhlG. 23.
2. city, 3 h. south of Hebron, כַּרְמֶל Josh 15:55 ׳ בַּכּ 1Sam 25:2 (twice in verse); 1Sam 25:7 כַּרְמֶ֫לָה 1Sam 25:5 (= to Carmel); הַכַּרְמֶ֫לָה 1Sam 15:12; 1Sam 25:40. — Modern Kurmul, Rob BR i. 492-498, ii. 97 BuhlG. 163.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

כרמל (kar-mel)

Leviticus 2:14

KJV: And if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
EHCC: beaten out of full cars.

Leviticus 28:14

EHCC: nor parched corn, nor green ears,

2 Kings 4:42

KJV: And there came a man from Baal–shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.the husk…: or, his scrip, or, garment
EHCC: and full ears of corn in the husk thereof.

2 Kings 19:98

EHCC: forest of his Carmel. (or, fruitful fleld)

2 Chronicles 26:10

KJV: Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.digged…: or, cut out many cisternsCarmel: or, fruitful fieldshusbandry: Heb. ground
EHCC: in the mountains, and in Carmel: (marg.

Song of Songs 7:5

KJV: Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.Carmel: or, crimsonheld: Heb. bound
EHCC: (6).Thine head upon thee (is) like Carmel,

Isaiah 10:18

KJV: And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.both…: Heb. from the soul, and even to the flesh
EHCC: of his forest, and of his fruitful fleld,

Isaiah 16:10

KJV: And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
EHCC: and joy out of the pientiful field;

Isaiah 29:17

KJV: Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
EHCC: Lebanon aball be turned into a fruitful

Isaiah 82:15

EHCC: the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the

Isaiah 87:24

EHCC: the forest of his Carmel, (marg. or his

Jeremiah 2:7

KJV: And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.a plentiful…: or, the land of Carmel
EHCC: 1 brought you in to ם plentiful country,

Jeremiah 4:26

KJV: I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.
EHCC: the rafal place Gras) 0 וֹש#ש;שװ

Jeremiah 48:89

EHCC: ineas is taken from the 0

Amos 1:2

KJV: And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
EHCC: the top of Carmel shall wither.

Micah 7:14

KJV: Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.Feed: or, Rule
EHCC: in the midst of Carmel:
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