Lexical Summary Karmel: a mountain promontory on the Mediterranean, also a city near Hebron Original Word: כַּרְמֶלTransliteration: Karmel Phonetic Spelling: (kar-mel') Part of Speech: Proper Name Location Short Definition: a mountain promontory on the Mediterranean, also a city near Hebron Meaning: Carmel -- a mountain promontory on the Mediterranean, also a city near Hebron Strong's Concordance Carmel, fruitful plentiful field, place The same as karmel; Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine -- Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place). see HEBREW karmel Brown-Driver-Briggs H3760. Karmel 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; Joshua 19:26, ׳הַרהַֿכּ 1 Kings 18:19-20, 2 Kings 2:25; 4:25; הַכּ ׳ראֹשׁ Amos 1:2; 9:3; 1 Kings 18:42; with article also Joshua 12:22; and, + בָּשָׁן, Jeremiah 50:19, as pasturage (in figurative of Israel as flock of ׳י), compare (׳כ without article) Micah 7:14 (less probably rend. garden-land, I. כַּרְמִל, so We GASm); ׳הַכּ Isaiah 35:2 ( + הַשָּׁרוֺן הַלְּבָּנוֺן) ׳כ 33:9 (+ הַשָּׁרוֺן לְבָנוֺן and בָּשָׁן, marking extent of land), Nahum 1:4 (+ בָּשָׁן לְבָנוֺן); בַּיָּם כְּכַרְמֶל Jeremiah 46:18 (simile of Nebuchadnezzar); Cant 7:6 כַּכּ עָלַיִךְ ׳ראֹשֵׁךְ (but see כַּרְמִיל); — on Carmel see GASmG. 337 ff. BuhlG. 23. 2 city, 3 h. south of Hebron, כַּרְמֶל Joshua 15:55; ׳בַּכּ 1 Samuel 25:2 (twice in verse); 25:7; כַּרְמֶ֫לָה 25:5 (= to Carmel); הַכַּרְמֶ֫לָה 15:12; 25:40. — Modern Kurmul, Rob BR i. 492-498, ii. 97 BuhlG. 163. |
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