Midvash

כַּרְכְּמִישׁKarkᵉmîysh

proper name [of a location]: city on Euphrates, Hittite capital, East bank of Euphrates (Isaiah 10:9; 2 Chronicles 35:20; Jeremiah 46:2)

Pronunciation: kar-kem-eesh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3751

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:20 After Josiah had finished restoring the Temple, King Neco of Egypt led his army up from Egypt to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River, and Josiah and his army marched out to fight him.
  • Isaiah 10:9 We destroyed Calno just as we did Carchemish. Hamath fell before us as Arpad did. And we destroyed Samaria just as we did Damascus.
  • Jeremiah 46:2 This message concerning Egypt was given in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, the king of Judah, on the occasion of the battle of Carchemish when Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, and his army were defeated beside the Euphrates River by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).