כַּרְמִיKarmîy

Karmi, the name of three Israelites

Pronunciation: kar-mee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3756

Meanings

1. a son of Reuben (Genesis 46:9; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 26:6)

2. a Judaite, but read perhaps כְּלֻבַי (Joshua 7:1; Joshua 7:18; 1 Chronicles 2:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 46:9 The sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
  • Exodus 6:14 These are the ancestors of some of the clans of Israel: The sons of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. Their descendants became the clans of Reuben.
  • Numbers 26:6 The Hezronite clan, named after their ancestor Hezron. The Carmite clan, named after their ancestor Carmi.
  • Joshua 7:1 But Israel violated the instructions about the things set apart for the Lord. A man named Achan had stolen some of these dedicated things, so the Lord was very angry with the Israelites. Achan was the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah.
  • Joshua 7:18 Every member of Zimri’s family was brought forward person by person, and Achan was singled out.
  • 1 Chronicles 2:7 The son of Carmi (a descendant of Zimri) was Achan, who brought disaster on Israel by taking plunder that had been set apart for the Lord.
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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).