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title: כַּרְמֶל — Carmel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כַּרְמֶל (3760), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: Carmel. BDB 1906: n.pr.mont. et urb. Carmel. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כַּרְמֶל

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«כַּרְמֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Carmel** — 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:** 7 times · **Key:** 3760 · **BDB:** כַּרְמֶל²

### Glosses

Carmel (4); (the) (2); to (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Carmel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3760/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.mont. et urb. Carmel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3760/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.mont. et urb. Carmel:— mt.-promontory on Mediterranean, with fertile slopes, Tel el-Amarna (Ginti-)Kirmil, Jastrow JBL xi. 1892, 115; Jos 19:26, הַר־הַכּ׳ 1 K 18:19, 20 2 K 2:25; 4:25; רֹאשׁ הַכּ׳ Am 1:2; 9:3; 1 K 18:42; c. art. also Jos 12:22; and, + בָּשָׁן, Je 50:19, as pasturage (in fig. of Isr. as flock of י׳), cf. (כ׳ without art.) Mi 7:14 (less prob. rend. garden-land, i. כַּרְמֶל, so We GASm); הַכּ׳ Is 35:2 (+ הַלְּבָנוֹן, הַשָּׁרוֹן); כ׳ Is 33:9 (+ לְבָנוֹן, הַשָּׁרוֹן and בָּשָׁן, marking extent of land), Na 1:4 (+ לְבָנוֹן, בָּשָׁן); כְּכַרְמֶל בַּיָּם Je 46:18 (sim. of Nebuchad.); Ct 7:6 רֹאשֵׁךְ עָלַיִךְ כַּכּ׳ (but v. כַּרְמִיל);—on Carmel v. GASmG. 337 ff. BuhlG. 23. city, 3 h. S. of Hebron, כַּרְמֶל Jos 15:55; בַּכּ׳ 1 S 25:2(×2), 7; כַּרְמֶ֫לָה v 5 (= to Carmel); הַכַּרְמֶ֫לָה 15:12; 25:40.—Mod. Kurmul, RobBR i. 492–498, ii. 97 BuhlG. 163.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כַּרְמֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3760/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.55/)

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מָע֥וֹן ׀ כַּרְמֶ֖ל וָזִ֥יף וְיוּטָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Maon Carmel and Ziph and Juttah

*JPS 1917:* Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah;

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[1 Samuel 25:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.5/)

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וַיִּשְׁלַ֥ח דָּוִ֖ד עֲשָׂרָ֣ה נְעָרִ֑ים וַיֹּ֨אמֶר דָּוִ֜ד לַנְּעָרִ֗ים עֲל֤וּ כַרְמֶ֙לָה֙ וּבָאתֶ֣ם אֶל־נָבָ֔ל וּשְׁאֶלְתֶּם־ל֥וֹ בִשְׁמִ֖י לְשָׁלֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent David ten young.men and he.said David to the.young men go.up to Carmel and you.will.go to Nabal and you.will.ask of him in name my to welfare

*JPS 1917:* And David sent ten young men, and David said unto the young men: 'Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name;

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