כַּרְכְּמִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3751

Carchemish — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Carchemish tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כַּרְכְּמִישׁ: n.pr.loc. tree →

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.

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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Carchemish (3).

In the verses

Isaiah 10:9 · tree →

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?

2 Chronicles 35:20 · tree →

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.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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