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title: כַּרְמִי — Carmi · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּרְמִי (3756), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: Carmi. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּרְמִי

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«כַּרְמִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Carmi** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 3756 · **BDB:** כַּרְמִי

### Glosses

Carmi (5); of.Carmi (3); the.Carmite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Carmi [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3756/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3756/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a son of Reuben Gn 46:9 Ex 6:14 Nu 26:6 1 Ch 5:3. a Judaite Jos 7:1, 18 1 Ch 2:7; so 4:1, but read perhaps כְּלֻבַי We (cf. 2:9)—𝔊 throughout χαρμ(ε)ι.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּרְמִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3756/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 46:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.9/)

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וּבְנֵ֖י רְאוּבֵ֑ן חֲנ֥וֹךְ וּפַלּ֖וּא וְחֶצְר֥וֹן וְכַרְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Reuben Hanoch and Pallu and Hezron and Carmi

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

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[Numbers 26:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.6/)

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לְחֶצְרֹ֕ן מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחֶצְרוֹנִ֑י לְכַרְמִ֕י מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַכַּרְמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Hezron the.clan of the.Hezronite\[s\] of Carmi the.clan of the.Carmite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

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