כַּרְמֶלkarmel

a planted field (garden, orchard, vineyard or park); by implication, garden produce

Pronunciation: kar-mel' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3759

Meanings

1. plantation, garden-land

2. fruit, garden-growth

1. garden-land (Isaiah 16:10; Isaiah 10:18; Isaiah 29:17)

2. (fresh) fruit, garden growth, by metonymy (2 Kings 4:42; Leviticus 2:14; Leviticus 23:14)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 17 times in the Bible.

  • Leviticus 2:14 “If you present a grain offering to the Lord from the first portion of your harvest, bring fresh grain that is coarsely ground and roasted on a fire.
  • Leviticus 23:14 Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.
  • 2 Kings 4:42 One day a man from Baal-shalishah brought the man of God a sack of fresh grain and twenty loaves of barley bread made from the first grain of his harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people so they can eat.”
  • 2 Kings 19:23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have conquered the highest mountains— yes, the remotest peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars and its finest cypress trees. I have reached its farthest corners and explored its deepest forests.
  • 2 Chronicles 26:10 He also constructed forts in the wilderness and dug many water cisterns, because he kept great herds of livestock in the foothills of Judah and on the plains. He was also a man who loved the soil. He had many workers who cared for his farms and vineyards, both on the hillsides and in the fertile valleys.
  • Isaiah 10:18 The Lord will consume Assyria’s glory like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land; it will waste away like sick people in a plague.
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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).