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title: כַּרְכְּמִישׁ — Carchemish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּרְכְּמִישׁ (3751), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Carchemish. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

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«כַּרְכְּמִישׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Carchemish** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3751 · **BDB:** כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

### Glosses

Carchemish (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Carchemish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc., city on Euphrates (Assyrian Kargamis, Gargamis, cf. DlPar 265 ff.; Egyptian Ḳa-rï-ḳa-mḁï(?)-šḁ WMM Asien u. Europa 263; etym. dub.; according to Hoffm Auszüge Act. Pers. Märt. 163 RSProph. i. n. 5 = ‘Castle of Mish,’ cf. Dl l.c.);—כַּרְכְּמִישׁ Is 10:9 2 Ch 35:20 (𝔊L Χαρχαμεις), כַּרְכְּמִשׁ Je 46:2 (𝔊 Χαρμεις, Καρχαμεις). Hittite capital, E. bank of Euphr., mod. Jerabîs, or Jerbâs; Schr KGF 221 ff.; COT, on Is 10, 9 Dl l.c.; Jen ZA vii. (1892), 365 thinks he reads G(K)ar-g(k)a-mi-si(e)-ras = ‘king of Karkemish’ on (‘Hittite’) inscr. from Karkemish.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּרְכְּמִישׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3751/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 10:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.9/)

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הֲלֹ֥א כְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנ֑וֹ אִם־לֹ֤א כְאַרְפַּד֙ חֲמָ֔ת אִם־לֹ֥א כְדַמֶּ֖שֶׂק שֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* ? not like Carchemish \[is\].Calneh or? not like Arpad \[is\].Hamath or? not like Damascus \[is\].Samaria

*JPS 1917:* Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

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[2 Chronicles 35:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.35.20/)

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אַחֲרֵ֣י כָל־זֹ֗את אֲשֶׁ֨ר הֵכִ֤ין יֹֽאשִׁיָּ֙הוּ֙ אֶת־הַבַּ֔יִת עָלָ֞ה נְכ֧וֹ מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֛יִם לְהִלָּחֵ֥ם בְּכַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ עַל־פְּרָ֑ת וַיֵּצֵ֥א לִקְרָאת֖וֹ יֹאשִׁיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* after all this when he.had.prepared Josiah (et) the house he.went.up Necho the.king of.Egypt to do.battle at Carchemish on \[the\].Euphrates and he.went.out to meet him Josiah

*JPS 1917:* After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

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